Today I worked one-to-one (online) with a life model (Marissa). This is definitely a step forward for my project.
It's lovely to have the luxury of being able to extend the duration of a pose. There are lots of considerations and negotiations: when to have breaks, chatting or silence, how long to hold a pose (before a break is needed), even whether to allow pets in the room. We worked throught it all very well together.
I'm wondering if it might be wiser to work together in real life. Not because I don't like drawing online, but for the speed and quality of photography. If I aim for a set of photographs, I can choreograph a wide variety of poses. Whereas working online in real time, we can only try a few. It may also be easier to communicate with the model about adjusting the pose.
By the way, if you would like to work one-to-one with a life model, I would highly recommend Marissa. Professional, communicative and positive. She has worked with established artist Ghislaine Howard (you can see her in Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Re-imagined ). Thanks Marissa.
Video Transcript
Hi, Frankie here. I had my first session with Marissa this morning. Marissa, the life model - it went really well. I was really happy with it. We worked really well together. We had a lot of chats and kind of tried out a few different things. I think next time I'll go without earrings. I want to keep the drawings quite simple.
I don't mean my earrings. I mean the earrings she was wearing. And she had quite heavy black eye makeup as well, which I think it would be better without the eye makeup, because all of these details kind of feed into the image. And it's not really a project about about the model per se. In a way, it's about the surface image of something and the patterns and the shifting in and out of there being a real person in there. Well, a drawing of a person.
I was just going to say it's difficult to explain, but it doesn't matter - I don't really need to explain it because I'm in the middle of it, so I'm just doing it. But I wanted to share a bit of insight about the work.
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