As a continuation of my style project I really need to start taking photos of my own. There are many problems with this as there is a particular style I want that is really quite hard to just come across, especially in Huddersfield, but I'll work with what I can get and am developing strategies to better achieve the aesthetic I want. An aspect that through my work I have discovered is almost as important as the style and aesthetic of the model is the pose of the figure. To practice arranging a pose and such I borrowed a camera and practised taking photos of my friends, the sort I'd take when I have actual models I would draw.
     
I had quite a bit of trouble with doing this, more than I thought. I looked through previous drawings and tried to get people in similar clothes but struggled to get anything I really like, especially at first. I did learn a lot though and improve over the day. I think my main problem was improvising the poses, I really need to make some template poses to give me a basis to work on. Another trouble I had was working around the type of clothing they were wearing. This hopefully wont be such an issue when I take my actual photos to work from as my models then will hopefully be wearing clothing more similar to the style I want and am used to drawing.