Simple

I was happy with just doing a basic construction on this sketch. Well, except for the rendering of the model's moustache. Oh well, we ...

Twosday twoday

Eh, I get bored with the titles so I amuse myself. Here are a couple more sketches for your amusement.

Monday double feature

These are both smaller than I usually draw.  I did the head study first, flipped the sheet and did the back pose after.  Kinda fun compactin...

It's Sunday

I was intrigued by the shadows along the extended leg of our model and really tried to work the long strokes of the charcoal in with the sim...

Pieces

I tend to like drawing segments of the figure more than the whole.  It seems to focus me better and I end up liking the drawing more for it.

Back to our regular program

Gestures from last night. This week you may see a little different look to the drawings. I tried to be a bit more intuitive. I'll tal...

Update!!!!

Something new. I finished this piece and thought I'd post it for comparison. A few adjustments and a bit of polishing up here and the...

The Trapper

This will be at our gallery soon. I had a lot of fun with it and you'll notice that it is very different in technique from the cowboy p...

Sunday long pose

I had such high hopes for this drawing. I used a paper that Loren Entz gave to me and for some reason I thought it would be a magical solut...

Wiiiiiiild Horses...

couldn't drag me away. Okay, they probably could but I take any opportunity to quote the Stones. Just a little sketch of, well, a wi...

In progress

Something I'm working on.  It should've been done by now but... 

A little late...

so sue me.  Busy day.  Here's something a little different.  I haven't quite figured out if this is done or not.  I really enjoy doi...

Last pose

No drawing last night so this will be the last figure drawing until Monday.  I'll put some other stuff up in the meantime.  We will have...

Reclined

I really do enjoy these poses. When the hair piles up on the pillow I get the sense of the "Gibson Girl" from the days of yore. ...

Finally...

a decent likeness.  I've been struggling with getting Sarah's face right and this one worked out.  Funny, because I wasn't reall...

Don't look back

I really got into this one.  It was a simpler pose, sure.  But I've always had a liking for a back pose.  I like the musculature involve...

Spring forward

The time change always seems to catch up to me on Monday, not the Sunday that it's changed on. Really screws with me for about a week. ...

A couple more

Sorry, no comments today.

Exploratory sketches

Just getting the feel of charcoal again.  Much different than the controlled feel of conté but much more freeing.  I think I may actually se...

A gesture of grace

And so it begins again. Friday morning, gesture drawings. I really enjoyed the gesture poses our model took last night. Very graceful and...

Tough pose

As a model who had never done this before this was quite a challenging pose.  Ten minutes with so much tension on various areas all at once....

More dueling media

Charcoal?  Conté?  The reclining piece is in charcoal and suffers from not having the face complete.  I may actually go back in on this one ...

Twofer Tuesday

Sorry, couldn't resist the title.  Again, one charcoal and one conté.  Again, I think the charcoal has more life and power whereas the c...

Switch to terra cotta

I think I have actually shied away from terra cotta recently is because of this blog.  I have a hard time photographing it well and it bothe...

Laying around on a Sunday afternoon

or so the sketches would have you believe.  I switched up to charcoal for the first time in a very long time after a critique I attended a w...

A bit out-liney...

but I like it.  The pose was challenging because of the perspective and the foreshortening of the left leg.  With the right shin cutting it...

Another new model

One of our regular artists recommended Shari, our model for last night. Thank you to both. Shari had never done this before and she did a ...

And so endeth the session

  I just want to say "Thank you" to Sarah for a great modeling session.  The group very much appreciated it and we look forward to...

A bit longer

We had ten minutes for the back shot and I think it shows.  I'm not sure if we did ten for the front seated piece or not.  I'm prett...

A couple more quick sketches

I started focusing on the torso, which is pretty usual for me, since I wasn't completing nearly enough of the drawing to make me happy. ...

Almost...

a full face.  Almost.  The second drawing was a bit too ambitious for a first time model.  However, she held it long enough to get a pretty ...