Life Drawing: London Atelier of Representational Art/Dulwich Art Group

LIFE DRAWING, VAUXHALL

I found a MeetUp.com group which does Life Drawing on Wednesday evenings: 6.30PM-8.30PM Vauxhall, London. They are called: London Atelier of Representational Art.

The reason why I decided to join them was, the first 4 lessons are FREE. They give you a card with 4 empty squares on it; and, each time you go they mark off a single square. When each of your 4 FREE sessions is up; then, you have to pay £8.00 per time.

So far to date, I've gone and attended 2 FREE sessions...

27th November: 2013, Female model - French/Brown skin(Arabic, possibly)

4th December 2013, Male model(older) - I mostly chose to draw the full sized 'hanging skeleton' located at the back of the room, instead. (If I had known in advance that it was going to be a 'male model'; then, frankly, I wouldn't even have bothered turning up, in the first place!)

LIFE DRAWING, DULWICH ART GROUP

Dulwich Art Group, -located in Dulwich, The Old Scout Wood Hut,- has Life Drawing/Painting sessions on...

Wed 12:00 midday
Thu 7PM evening
Sat 10AM morning

Last week, on 4th Dec 2013 Wednesday, I attended a Life Drawing/Painting session there; the model was 'male'...a young guy called, Jacob. Frankly, I really hate having to draw 'male models'; however, as somebody who is still a beginner...desperately trying my best to get the drawing to work right...?!...it was really great to watch and see how others work; some of the drawing/painting level of ability and skill was very impressive, indeed. The group was large consisting of around 15 drawers/painters.

NOTE: On this same Wednesday I actually went and attended 2 different Life Drawing classes: the first during the morning at Dulwich: 12:00 midday/and, the second later on during the evening: 6:30PM, at Vauxhall. Most unfortunately, both times, the model was 'male'...which, for me, was a really big disappointment, indeed; so, each time, I didn't come away feeling too very pleased. You do still learn a lot from drawing the 'male nude'; but, it's like boring, and, totally uninspiring to see; on the other hand, you really are meant to be concentrating puely on capturing form/details/light/shade/texture/muscles/wrinkles/hair/-etc. You shouldn't be too much concerned about who/or, what sex/how young or old/or, just how pretty the model is...; but, me, I guess, I'm not that good at drawing, yet; so, for me, at least, half of the fun is seeing a 'female nude'!