On the 18th of April, I was lucky enough to get a place in a life drawing session run by Lee Townsend. Lee Townsend is a professional illustrator of over 30 years for comics, books and films. As a comic artist he is very experienced at life drawing, capturing the human form in all sorts of gestural poses.
Our task was to draw the many statues in the British Museum. We did both longer poses of around 15 minutes, down to much shorter less detailed drawings for 2 minutes. Lee encouraged us to focus less on the details and more on the pose as a whole. When looking at my figures, Lee helped me correct anatomical issues and encouraged me to place guidelines to carve out the forms. He taught me that there is often a line between the shoulders, and a line between the hips- and that in poses, they are often leaning in the opposite direction to balance weight.
The museum was incredibly busy! Many tourists came up to us to ask us what we were drawing, and to take a look at our work.
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