Specialism: Ballerina Silhouettes

I've started this specialism project slightly later than I would have liked to ideally, due to some issues that have come up but I'd like to think I am now bringing myself into the swing of things so it will be okay-ish.

Out of the 3 ideas I have, I have chosen what could be considered the more ambitious of the ones to start off with. However, I have chosen to do this idea as I would have to practice drawing all parts of the body as well as the whole body itself. These practices will be helpful in creating the other paintings too.

Another reason as to why I chose the ballerina option rather than any others is simply that I have more of an idea as to what I want to do and achieve with this one.

To begin with, I set about copying a few poses of photos of ballerinas in different positions and stages of jumping or dancing etc. I wish I could use one of these copies as the pose I would be using, however it would probably be best to use one of mine own 'original' poses. Although I'm not sure any pose will particularly be original, so I may adapt my piece so that the direction goes more towards the copied figures.

Creating the original poses has helped me become more confident in drawing figures with hopefully correct body proportions.

The second piece just shows where I want the arms, legs and head to be, and what direction I want the figure facing etc. as some of the silhouettes don't show it clearly enough and are slightly confusing.

My next step is to practice drawing individual parts of the body. I'd like to practice hand positions, legs, backs and feet etc. the curves and directions etc. basically all the things that would help me in drawing the figures.