Observational Drawing: Dancers at the Space

This is the culmination of the last 3 weeks of drawing dancers at The Space  (Dundee College) every Wednesday morning. the session usually lasts about 2 hours and involves me and who ever else who wishes to attend sitting at the edge of classical ballet or contemporary technique and choreography as well as freestyle classes and sometimes rehearsals. The dancers also sometimes take breaks to stretch or listen to tutors, and sometimes they take part in solo rehearsals.

After scanning the drawings i've tried to test my memory of anatomy by drawing over the sketches digitally to produce more complete studies of some select poses. I intend to continue doing both the observational drawing and continue to finish off selected poses regularly to provide myself with regular quick and accurate human figure drawing skills, and to widen my knowledge of the capabilities of a dancers' bodies with a view to finishing Dancing Nina to the best of my ability.

Drawing over more poses

Fight poses for storyboarding

Some drawings from our reference footage of Courtney and Dimitra at the Space to help with storyboarding

Sifting through our footage

We began to look through our edited footage together and pick out particular poses we liked. These are both gentle and forceful "reacting" poses. These drawings were made from stills of day2, version 1, and day 2, version 3.

Dancing scribbles from 02/02/12

drawings i did during our second session with the dancers; Courtney and Dimitra. I've simply neglected to scan them in for far too long.

Dancing scribbles

On-the-spot life drawing of Miranda, Courtney, Dimitra, Alicja and Tricia at The Space yesterday, improvising. E.g. rising, falling, spiralling, blocking, and puppeting each other.