This video is a recording of a live Zoom life drawing session, aired on 26th February 2025. The recording is shared here so that you can catch up and draw from the session if you missed it, or continue to work on a drawing if you attended live! As this is a recording of a live session the quality is limited by Zoom and will be a lower resolution than our our tutored sessions which are recorded locally and undergo more rigorous processing before their release. Please feel free to work from the video directly, or to take a screenshot to work from - if you take a screenshot please do be mindful of the photo guidance below. Click the cog in the bottom right of the screen and select 1080 for the highest resolution image - if you're working on a tablet or phone, enable rotation and turn your devise into portrait format for the best view.
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5 x 1 min poses
5 x 3 min poses
2 x 10 min poses
1 x 30 min pose
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The poses in this session are inspired by Shakespearean tragedies. Each set of poses is inspired by the following tragedies, with quotes:
5 x 1 min poses: Richard III
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.
A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my hell.
I am not in the giving vein to-day.
Grim-visaged War hath smoothed his wrinkled front.
5 x 3 min poses: Julius Caesar (3) & Othello (2)
Julius Caesar
O conspiracy,
Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
When evils are most free?
(Brutus, Act 2, Scene 1)
Othello
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.
(Iago, Act 3, Scene 3)
2 x 10 min poses: Titus Andronicus
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,
Blood and revenge are hammering in my head.
(Aaron, Act 2, Scene 3)
1 x 30 poses: Timon of Athens
'Here lies a wretched corpse, of wretched soul bereft;
Seek not my name. A plague consume you wicked caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon, who alive all living men did hate.
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass, and stay not here thy gait.'
(Alcibiades, Act 5, Scene 4)
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