Last week I was very fortunate to attend Sketch Night at the Opera. Essentially the Minnesota Opera lets us watch a dress rehearsal of an opening opera and make sketches, for FREE! This round we were able to watch Silent Night, a brand new opera about a controversial truce on Christmas during World War I. It was spectacular!
The following sketches are from that night. They’re kind of… sketchy. I think the problem was I was trying to treat it as a life-drawing course, which was not a good idea because the characters were constantly moving. I think that if I get to do this again, I will draw more abstractly, focusing on capturing specific features rather than gestures and poses.
