All right.
So this lecture we're going to talk about setting a time limit and keeping things loose.
Now before we jump in quick disclaimer this lecture does contain some artistic nudity so if you're sensitive
to that maybe skip this one.
Besides that lustrum been so another thing that really helps when you're drawing from life is to set
yourself a time limit.
Sometimes when we're drawing from life there's so much information that our eyes are taking and that
it can be hard to know when is enough and when to stop when to keep going right.
So give yourself a time limit really help you to be able to know when to cut yourself off and how much
information you're going to get in that short amount of time.
So these are a series of life you're drawing studies that I did from life from a live model and I set
a time limit for myself on each one of these.
Now this is a couple of things right.
The first one is these are all one minute poses case.
I had one minute to draw each of these what it helps me do is one warm up and get nice and loosened
up mentally and physically for when I start doing the more detailed drawings and to it also helps me
just really focus on the basic essence of the drawing.
Right if I had to break this down into its most simple forms and I only have one minute to dry it what
is it that I'm going to see and that's what this helps me do.
So these were the one minute poses I did that after I did one minute I jumped.
Oh these are more one minute actually.
So we have some more right here.
Again you can see the really simple right.
But each one of these I'm kind of building up my visual library by storing these kind of shapes and
lines in my head to write the lines of these hands are super basic grade or MENC fingers.
But all of these different things help build up my visual library so that next time I'm drawing a person
I can reference this.
OK.
So these are still the one minute poses one up to a 15 minute pose you could see him keeping these things
really really loose.
Right.
This isn't trying to make something look as accurate as possible right.
That's a finished rendered drawing this is just a sketch right.
This whole Course is about sketching.
So sketching obviously is quick and fast and light right.
So this is super loose.
Keep it loose.
If you're taking too much time really focusing in on one area and you can tell you're really noodling
it just move on.
Right.
You want to be able to get these ideas out quickly so that you can move onto the next one and come up
with more.
And then later when you decide that you really like something you can go back and render it tighter
or paint it.
OK.
So then after a 15 minute wait another 15 minute one same thing keeping it pretty loose and you could
see I ended up not having time to finish the leg right leg down here.
It doesn't look super awesome and neither does this foot.
Right there are some things that I don't really like about this one but giving me that 15 minute time
like means I'm not going to be spending time forever trying to get it right and getting frustrated.
I can just take what I've learned from this one and move on to the next one.
OK.
And the last one is a 30 minute pose.
And you can see this one is a lot more detail I started getting some chateaus in there right about building
up with those time limits really helped me to be able to get to this point and have it look more realistic
now.
Every painting from life or if you're painting a scene from life like outside you're painting a building
or something like that drawing scenery.
Do the same thing a time limit for yourself if you have a phone or a watch or something like that.
A one minute time limit to start and do five 15 and then 31 and you're 31 will probably be the best
one because you've spent all this time and you have spent all this time studying it and building up
and you have the most amount of time to drive.
So that's it for this I just want to give you a little bit more advice on how to not be overwhelmed.
I know I already said this before but trust me it's totally worth it to practice drawing these things
from life.
I know that it can be overwhelming.
I know it can feel frustrating especially if you used to just drying out of your head like I was but
it's totally worth it and I promise it will make you a better artist in the end.
So that's it for this one.
I'll see you guys in the next lecture.