Life Drawing PART FOUR - Rhythm Is A Dancer

This was the hardest of all the life drawing tasks we were set. I absolutely see the point of it, which was to learn how to very quickly capture the essence of a pose. I would genuinely like to try more of this to improve at it because I think the idea is really cool! It's the principle of a long exposure photograph but if it were drawn.

In practice I fell behind on drawing the poses really quickly. Everything became a crazy crazy blur and I don't think that a good sense of rhythm had been established. What I need to work on most when doing something like this is my spacing. Either the figures were too close together and it became an incomprehensible mess, or I placed them too far apart and ended up drawing off the page before the sequence had been completed. Another thing about the spacing of the drawings is that they give an indication of the timing of the pose. If the drawings are too far apart, it's hard to see a sense of rhythm in the final sequence, whereas when the drawings are spaced perfectly they draw the eye along the sequence and the brain sort of fills in the in-between frames.

I enjoyed doing this as it could be quite cathartic, but I need to make sure that I can capture a strong shape in five seconds. The most important thing I could’ve remembered when I was drawing this was a line of action, but it slipped my mind.