Monday 30th October 2023

Today we spent the afternoon at Tate Modern doing fast location drawing of people. It had to be fast because, being in a public place, people kept moving so you didn’t have much time to capture them.

To start with, we had to just draw people’s faces. I found this really challenging at the beginning, particularly since I’m used to just doing the bare minimum to represent faces when drawing people. I ended up sitting near to an artwork that people would stand and look at for a while, which gave me a bit more time to draw them, and by the end I felt more confident with it. Here are my some of my drawings:

Then we had to draw scenes. By now I felt much more willing to quickly get something down and move on, and I was quite pleased with some of my drawings: