Anyway....I've started my 3rd and last trimester here at the Florence Academy of Art! The curriculum for this trimester is: Two 5 week poses in the drawing program and one 3 week, one 5 week pose with two 1 week quick poses as warm up in the beginning in the sculpture program.
Our first model for the 5 week charcoal drawing is called Claudia and she is a very good and experienced model. She happened to be away for a few days of the first "warm up" week before we actually set the long pose though, so we got the opportunity to do a short and smaller charcoal drawing of a male model. I haven't done a charcoal study this size before (it's about 40cm high) and it was so much fun. The point of these smaller and shorter drawings is to treat it as a pencil drawing in charcoal, rather than a proper charcoal drawing. This means that you don't put any background in and you keep to one shadow value without half tones, but with transitions and accents. I really hope we will be able to do another one of these this term since it was so much fun.
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