Masks

In life drawing class yesterday we drew the model wearing a succession of masks.  It was good timing for me and my mask from sculpture class.  For each pose the teacher altered the set-up and the lighting.  The idea of the day was to get out of our comfort zone where we draw in the same way each time.  It's true!  I know I draw in a certain scale so this time I went big and cropped on a few and also small on one.

I showed the first teacher my three drawings for the project he set up.  He didn't seem very enthusiastic but he was the same last year before giving me an A.  He had some good critique and suggestions for improving them.  Then our current teacher gave another assignment of 3-4 small drawings using the ideas from today -- shaking things up in terms of mood, tone, scale, mark making, media and etc.