BBC Life Drawing Live

I’ve been watching Life Drawing tonight on BBC4.  Unlike Sky Portrait Artist of The Week, this is really fast paced.  I’ve ended up with four drawings.  It would have been seven but I couldn’t press the red button quickly enough to get model cam working in time to paint three 60-second portraits.

I also ended up filthy with all the pencil sharpening and page priming that I had to do (page priming is rubbing a pencil lead all over the paper, then rubbing it in/around with a bit of toilet paper).  And don’t be me started on how many times they announced that we needed some weird medium for the next exercise, like charcoal or red coloured pencil.  I can’t say it was a pleasure to participate from home and wonder whether I’d have learned more by watching.  I ended up feeling more frazzled than entertained.  If they really want to teach us how to draw, maybe they’d have been better off spending a couple of hours going through a single drawing with people at home joining in.

Oh well.  I’ll just wait and see now whether any of these make it into the BBC’s online gallery.