The Importance of Drawing From Life: An Artist's Perspective
Collecting Art, take a look It provides a dynamic environment where artists and students can engage in close observation and immediate artistic creation. Since my first introduction to the Life Room at art school, I have always had a love of drawing the human figure. Aside from being a useful exercise in developing your technical skills and practising new techniques, each human figure has an intrinsic beauty and uniqueness that offers endless forms of expression. Wherever I have lived and I’ve moved around an awful lot in the last ten years I always tried to find somewhere I could practice my life drawing. It wasn’t easy the past year in Eastbourne. I couldn’t find anywhere suitable for when I was free. On moving back to London last week, the first thing I did was look for a good life drawing group. A quick search on Meetup found different classes each day and evening of the week. That’s the beauty of living in a big city. It has been a while since I’ve drawn from the model, and I c...