Life Drawing: Robert and Zach

The drawing of Robert's hands were done as quickies on my way around the classroom several saturdays ago.  The second drawing was done today at open studio.  Twas a 40 minute pose on toned paper, graphite and white chalk.

These next few drawings are of model Zach.

Life drawing: Caitlin

It has been very long.  Semester is over though, so I'm posting some life drawings I've done over the last few months.  These have been from either Sunday open studio or my saturday life drawing class where I sneak in a quick sketch while students draw.  I don't know how long most of these are so I'll guesstimate.  There's a lot of them so I'll post a few each day designated by model :)

Caitlin is a model I've only worked with a handful of times but her reputation as one of the best has been known to me for a few years.  I'm just a schmuck for not working with her sooner.

that below...my new favorite charcoal after rediscovering it in the pile

no more than 15-30 seconds.  Just quickly added while checking the students

love me this gesture

these last four were all 1 minutes

Some more homework

Anatomy homework

Two charcoal drawings for anatomy class

Herakles

Just a little somethin' somethin' I did at the Met today whilst chatting and drawing along with fellow artist Dana Kotler.  May return next week to iron out some of the anatomy.

3/10 Open Studio

Worked with Zach today.  He's such a kick ass model with all sorts of anatomical ass kickery to get lost in while drawing.

5 minutes

10 minutes

20 minutes each

40 minutes

Anatomy homework

Used Nitram brand charcoal on the bottom two pages.  It was recommended to me by Stephen Perkins and I must say it does not disappoint.  It's nice and soft, doesn't stain the paper as much, and it's easier to push around.

hurray for homework

Today's batch of figure studio drawings.  

MORE homework and my favorite charcoal piece

Above was this past week's homework.

This week's exercise for figure studio

Last week's Head Drawing homework.

Best 20 minute charcoal I've ever done from life (in my opinion).  

Some homework

It's been a while since i've updated the blog, and I apologize since I've been doing surprisingly well this year.  Tomorrow after open studio I'll post some of the drawings I've done in the last couple weeks.  For now, here's some homework.

The above 3 are for anatomy class with Stephen Perkins.  Reacquainting myself with charcoal and slowly learning to love it, despite all my bitching and griping.  I'm still working on some compositional sketches for a large multi-figure painting that's our semester long project.  I'm thinking about 5 feet, maybe 15-20 figures :)

Above drawing is for Head Drawing with William Maughan, along with a close up.  So far he's incredible and gives the most thorough feedback I've ever received.  Just three weeks in and I'm learning to enjoy this pastel stuff.