I have my first assessment for Life Drawing class tomorrow.  The assessments are coming thick and fast and quite a number are due this week and next week.  There are only 4 more weeks left of the first term, excluding the October holiday which lasts for one week.  However, that doesn’t mean that I will be able to rest.  After that holiday, there will be a big push towards the final assessment and outcome for each subject. 

Tomorrow’s assessment will focus on how we have interpreted the facial features of the sitter.  We will also start working on the structure of the hands and feet, building towards the next assessment in week 8.  I am fairly content with what I’ve done for the first assessment, which was to include two of each facial feature: the ear, eye, nose and mouth. 

I worked with various mediums for this: oil pastels, biro, soft pastels (a first time for me), acrylic paint and graphite stick.  We were to get down each item as quickly as we could, with the model sitting for 20 minutes at a time, and we were to move around the model rather than staying in one position for any length of time.  I tidied up the rough sketches today, for presentation tomorrow.  I’m think I’ve done enough to pass the assessment, or at least, I hope!  So, here it is in all it’s glory on an A2 sheet of paper.