This was the first life drawing session I attended for our new term,since last week I was living it up in London. If living it up means standing in a line so long it wrapped around a massive building twice. All for Neil Gaiman. All over again for Neil Gaiman.
Anyway
just to note, there were two female models and I alternated between the two, so you know what, for the sake of retrospect I'll arrange them so that the ones of the same models are together.

I don't really like this one,I've done Li Shang proud and made a man out of her.
all I wanted to do was make her alert, so I pushed her head way back and straightened her spine and killed her form. 

I've read in this book somewhere that when you want to draw to express, you should do it in curves.
I'm breaking a lot of rules. Most of my drawings unintentionally depend on straight broken lines.
Are straight lines by humans ever really straight? the more you zoom into a circle the more it appears to be made out of a lot of straight particles right?
Hmm, there is a science to it, the curve theory, but I think for now I'll just keep an open mind and try different things.

I like this one because together it gives the illusion of the model swinging on something. But next time I'll try to keep it less messy








 

The next ones are of the other model.

                                   

The model here was lying down and looked so comfortable I thought id draw her really relaxed with her hand barely grazing a box on the floor
She was lying down for an hour, so the next one was done during the same period

I sort of burst her head into flames in the end because it looked too warm for the model. But only in my imagination perhaps. Her head is still intact.


I'll end with this.
I am in love with the world. Not very sure its such a good thing because it often seems one sided. But that's not entirely true because there's so many things to marvel at and be grateful for, how harsh to expect everything you've ever wanted.
besides, if the world was personified, im sure that I'm not exactly all it wanted as well
Recently I've been listening to a lot of Icelandic music, and that awe the world is amplifies over.
When I moved here 2 years ago, I remember for the first couple of months waking up with a feeling of gratitude that I had the opportunity of waking up in a place so beautiful, so safe so blessed with people.
People of different kinds, people with different ambitions, reasons, lifestyles, we're all here, together and separate . We can bear so much and break down at so little. Something so glorious in remembering that. I'm going to make it a goal to do that everyday, like when I first got here.
This little outlet is probably just for me.Who reads to the end of this anyway

unrequited love for the win - ----