BELLY DANCE DRAWING SESSION

Today I will post a new entrance after a long time. Over the next few weeks, I will publish some past drawing events that I couldn´t publish. At the same time, I´m going to show new material connected with future sessions.  
Last Thursday we did an interesting dance posing routine.

(AnimationFX Studio, Sara Martínez. June 25th 2016, Barcelona)

The model normally dance Tribal Fusion Belly Dance.

(AnimationFX Studio, Sara Martínez. June 25th 2016, Barcelona)

It is a modern Western form of belly dance which was created by fusing American Tribal Style belly dance and American Cabaret belly dance. 

Artists frequently incorporate elements from Popping, Hip Hop, 'Egyptian' or 'Cabaret' belly dance, as well as movement principles from traditional forms such as Flamenco, Kathak, Odissi, and other folkloric and classical dance styles.

MALE ANATOMICAL STUDIES___02

Here are examples of two different sessions with the same male model.

(AnimationFX Studio, David, Sep 24th, Oct 9th 2015, Barcelona)

All these quick sketches try to capture the human form with an effective linear graphic style.

The first posing routine was composed by the typical aesthetic poses of a nude session. The model used some ropes to help him to create a more dynamic effect. 

The second one was composed with dramatic poses. He designed a simple sword routine.  

MALE ANATOMICAL STUDIES___01

Yesterday we did our first male drawing session from a long time ago.

(ANIMATIONFX STUDIO, Roberto, August 6th 2015, Barcelona)

Here there are some quick sketches. 

I used a normal black pencil to differentiate them from a cartoon style.

The following days, I´m going to develop some tutorials on drawing the male figure from an anatomical approach.

ANATOMY DRAWING SESSION

Last Thursday, I organized my second life drawing session for the international game company KING. Some of its employees who work in the studio from Barcelona had the opportunity to enjoy a nude performance with one of our expert models.
 

(ANIMATIONFX STUDIO, Constanza, July 16th 2015, Barcelona)

It was an ANALYTICAL DRAWING SESSION created to study the basic structure the female body and develop interesting Anatomy sketches.

We began with a warm up exercise (several poses of 1 minute) and we continued with poses of 3 and 5 minutes. 

Some of these sketches were drawn while the model was preparing her posing routine. 

NEVER SLEEP AGAIN

Last Thursday we did a fun CHARACTER DRAWING SESSION.

(ANIMATIONFX STUDIO, Alicia, April 16th 2015, Barcelona)

Here are some sketches done in a private session with the model.  

A preliminary work is always necessary to design appealing poses and create an interesting posing routine.

BASIC ANATOMICAL EXERCISES

In our FREE STYLE SESSIONS, we normally do 3, 5 and 10 MINUTE POSES.

(LIFE DRAWING BCN, Pernilla, July 25th, 2014)

My favourite posing routine is when the model holds in the same position 3 MINUTES. These short poses are an excellent ANATOMICAL EXERCISE to capture the organic shape of the body through a CONFIDENT LINE.

I always draw these quick sketches in a small format (DinA5, DinA4). It helps to see the entire figure inside the limits of the paper. It´s a good COMPOSITION EXERCISE.

Here there are some THUMBNAIL SKETCHES.

When I finish a 3 minute posing routine, I always spend some minutes to add some finishing touches to my drawings. It helps to visualize the coloured line when I take a photo or I scan it.

As it´s a fast sketch exercise, I never use eraser. I think it´s important to enhance your confidence. A sketchbook must be a place where we can feel confortable with our own mistakes.
Them can very useful to understand how to develop your OBSERVATIONAL SKILLS.