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LoveLifeDrawing III

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This continued to be an informative and valuable course. I found the instruction and the feedback to be excellent.

Week 4 was some work on 2 value heads:

Then some work on Eyes in week 5:

Then some work on putting the eyes shapes into more specific practice:

LoveLifeDrawing II

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After learning to see and construct the head and facial structure we moved on to drawing the shapes in two values, still using basic shapes, no features yet.

It was amazing to see how much information we could convey without drawing eyes, mouth or nose!
Well, I started to add some simple eyes—it’s really hard not to!

Love Life Drawing I

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At a local Life Drawing lesson in the Spring the instructor had materials from LoveLifeDrawing.com.

I was impressed with the straight-forward breakdown of difficult concepts (how to draw a live figure), so I looked at the website and worked on the ‘Fresh Eyes Challenge’.

This Fall, I saw LoveLifeDrawing was offering a new Portrait Course. This fit with my goals, so I joined the ‘study group’. This costs a monthly fee that pays for all courses as long as you are a member. The teacher is called Kenzo and he’s in the UK.

It was a great course! The subject was broken down into manageable steps, and the site has lots of opportunity for sharing your work and progress, plus an excellent system for receiving video feedback once a week. The course was on live Zoom calls, with real-time questions encouraged.

Two or three times a month there is a live ‘Co-drawing’ session for 90 minutes each time. We all draw 5 minute and 15 minute poses/portraits and then can hold up our work for immediate feedback.

First exercises—head and facial structure
Similar exercises—all references provided from the course.