sight measuring

We talked about mammals and I decided to try another new thing: drawing fur together. It went..........okay. There were several points where I forgot to tell them a step ("switch to X pencil") and the final results are more fur-like than fur. The main issue was I hadn't accounted for the extra time it would take. I wanted to do the sight-measuring lesson before our break, so we only had about 7 minutes of "open drawing time" in the first half of class.

So we drew for a bit, then did sight measuring with the rabbit. Even in a class of two, 50% of the students really liked sight measuring and the other 50% did not. It was wild, the student who liked it....during "open drawing time," she had started drawing a cat from one of the reference photos I gave her. It was fine. On the same page, she used sight measuring to draw the rabbit and it was such an improvement. Her rabbit looked so good! It always feels like magic to me because I don't like sight measuring; being able to teach it anyway and have people take to it is almost miraculous. 

After our break, we drew for a bit, then talked about birds, then back to drawing. 

lol I made sure they would be okay about the snake picture next week and they were like "are you bringing in a snake?????" No, alas, the snake lives in Lents.

I think adding in the demos is a good thing, I just need to work on the timing. Maybe it is worthwhile splitting up this class's topics and replacing a topic later in the course.