The tutors on my course are very traditional artists and believe that drawing is still a very main part of Art, which I completely agree with, and has meant that they focus very much on drawing activities, including life drawing.
During the start of the course, we did very quick drawing activities, where we'd have a couple of minutes to draw the construction lines of the figure in front of us, then the model would change position and we would be given another few minutes to draw the new pose. This would be done a number of times until the page was filled.
After a while of having life drawing classed where the drawing would be very quick and based solely on the inner construction lines of the figure, we moved on to drawing the whole figure but still using the main construction lines as a guide. We always drew in charcoal and picked out highlights in chalk, as this left more room for correction.
Eventually we moved on to completing more finished life drawings in pencil on white paper. We still always marked out main construction lines and used them as a guide, but as we became more skilled these were less needed.
I have always found life drawings very challenging, but because it was always such a challenge it was also very rewarding when a drawing was successful. I am much more competent when it comes to life drawing than I was at the beginning of the course due to very good teaching from my tutors, but I know that because of the skill involved with life drawing it will take a long time to become anywhere near decent.
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