Kids in the garden:
At the train station:
I enjoyed this as people would assume the same pose time after time - essentially looking up at the board or just waiting.
School Fair:
People sitting on the grass observing the fair.
On the train:
As with the previous subjects, these two people were in my view and unaware I was drawing them.
At the museum:
Here people were standing, pointing, sitting on chairs and on the floor, walking.
People in the street:
I was sitting in a café looking out of the window. People outside were standing waiting or talking, walking and looking at their phones ...
Naomi - managing to sit still for a split second for me to draw her. She adopted this pose which shows how unnatural it is for her to stop and be still!
How well did you manage to create the sense of a fleeting moment rather than a pose?
I think I did manage to create a sense of a fleeting moment as the people I drew were unaware that I was drawing them and so were not posed. I feel I captured that sense of life as it is, rather than anything staged.
How successful were your attempts to retain an image and draw later? I avoided doing that. I only drew from life and what was in front of me. I didn't try and retain an image and draw it later. I think that I would find that really difficult if not impossible! However, I did in some cases make up an image where one person moved off and another person followed, I would amalgamate the two where another person was doing the same movement as the previous person, eg a woman walking.
Were you able to keep to a few descriptive lines to suggest the person's movement or were you tempted to keep introducing more elements into your work. I would keep drawing until the person moved to a degree where I knew they wouldn't move back to the action or position I was drawing. I would try and draw as much information as possible to indicate the action of the person, for as long as they were in sight. But once captured I would stop. I found I rather liked attempting to capture the person in a short space of time and if they moved - I would move on too.
