My model was not good at staying still, lots of fidgeting so I rushed through. I also found this exercise difficult as I wasn’t really sure of what was being asked, but I just tried to concentrate on the general large shapes and the angles of these, rather than small details which I hope I achieved. There was lots of foreshortening potential – fingers, legs, shoulders, arms, feet. I find it much harder to judge foreshortening with a live model as the angle always looks like it is sloping towards you but is actually much more acute and shorter When translating this onto the paper.
I only completed 3 drawings with more or less the same pose but from different angles.
Conte pencil on paper
Ball point pen on paper
Graphite pencil on paper
Deborah McAulay 