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I have been doing a lot of drawing this week for my Drawing Elective work at the RCA. The elective aims to reiterate the values of drawing for anyone creative and how the act of drawing can be utilised as a tool to help us create, stimulate ideas and negotiate our concepts visually. It’s a great chance to invest in really lovely, honest drawing exercises and then attempt to angle them back towards our disciplines.In fairness, the projects they’re setting feel very akin to the kind of projects I was met with at foundation level- but seeing as I have nothing but wonderful memories of my time on foundation I’m more than happy to revert back to the valuable techniques I learnt there. This week has been a week of drawing faces- face after face after face. I have made a couple of trips to the V&A to study the sculptures and busts on display there- where the faces are absolutely aching with expression PLUS the models are really good at NOT MOVING. Bonus! I’ll upload some of my drawn work soon, but for now will share some of the photos I took from the gallery.

Visiting the V&A
The Sluggard, by Frederic, Lord Leighton 1830-96

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