Earlier this week I finally had the time to catch up on the RAA’s most recent Life Drawing Live class.  It’s the first time I’ve ever tried one of their live classes and I will definitely do it again, as well as going back through the archives and tuning in to some of their older ones…

Life drawing is such a vital practice for any illustrator and over the years I’ve noticed how much of a positive impact it has on my skill level as well as my creativity.  At University, I kept up with regular life drawing classes and even when I went into full-time employment I used to travel to Oxford for weekend classes but since I’ve started freelancing, my life drawing has stopped.  I think it’s partly down to the lack of life drawing classes in my local area but also because I’m often away at weekends for events meaning I can’t attend the ones in Oxford anymore.  So it was a real treat when I stumbled across #LifeDrawingLive and was able to attend a class from my studio!  Amazing!  It was an hour and a half long and looked at different ways of drawing, from focusing on quick poses to muscle/joint sketches right through to equine anatomy and drawing a Welsh Mountain Pony called Romeo…

Here are some of my favourites… Sorry for the picture quality, I’m afraid I did these on nice big bits of A3 paper but unfortunately it meant they wouldn’t fit in my scanner…