Metamorphosis - Life Drawing

On the second day of our two-week collaboration project based on 'The Metamorphosis', we continued our research through life drawing. These are a selection of the stages we went through during the day. Starting out with traditional observational drawings I used pencils:

And then progressed to looking in more detail at shadow lines and body contours using charcoal: 

After the morning we got more experimental, thinking about the ideas of the novella. We started layering poses to show physical transformation, sometimes drawing them all on one sheet, sometime building on using tracing paper:  

Oil Pastel on Tracing Paper

Oil Pastel, Charcoal, Pen, Pencil

Pen and Pencil

We then progressed from this by projecting images onto the model, often of insects to show the relationship between human nature and the insect form that is in the book:

Charcoal

Pen and Pencil layered Tracing Paper

Pencil

I always enjoy life drawing and think this day was helpful to our research as it gave me ideas about how to depict transformation and the inner nature of things. I am generally pleased with my drawings though looking back feel it would have been more interesting if I had experimented with colours as well within different media.