Drawing Class

Last week I joined an online drawning class with a group called Pixel Corps. It's being taught by Iain McCaig who is an incredible artist most noted for working on designs for Star Wars. The way it works is that Iain puts up a video intro on some aspect of drawing, after which we have 4 days to work on the drawing, then put them up on a website that only the class member can see. Everyone can look at and critique if they want. On Thursdays Iain picks out a few to critique to the whole group. We will go for 10 weeks.

It's a beginning drawing class so I expect the lessons to be basic. But basics are good and having a reason to make me draw is really good. It's also a chance for me to work with a tablet and the computer. I'm going to do all the drawings digitally on the computer using a Wacom and Sketchbook Pro.

So far we have done a self portrait and this week we worked on balance. The particular drawing excercise above was to balance things on top of a bucket on a stick. We also had to make a figure balanced then unbalanced. I'll post more about the class as it progresses. Hopefully we'll see an improvement.