life drawing

Includes a friend, drawn between poses to fix a fumbled composition. Watercolour on paper, A4, 5 minute pose

5 min sketch

life drawing with pens

I've been meaning to draw some objects around my home. I got to these ones today. Pen life drawing.

Fine tip black pen, 8.5" x 11"

From 15- min life drawing and post session work.

From figure drawing class back in 2008. A combination of willow charcoal and compressed charcoal pencil.

Markers on A3 paper, 20-minute pose

And we're back to class. It's amazing how a couple of weeks can get you out of shape for gestures. Medium: Vine charcoal on newsprint. Time: 7 x 2 minutes.

A movement study of legs using a male model. 20 minute initial sketch, five minutes for each following, and a final 15 minute sketch. Time: 1hr Medium: Procreate on Ipad

Everyone should do life drawing. We all should be forced to look at people different to us as a mandatory part of education.

a chair next to drawers, speakers, a plant, and some kind of light or air filtration device is being climbed on by three small blue figures

Slice of life drawing.

Markers on A3. All the Young Nudes. 20 mins.

Graphite drawing, first life class back after summer break!

Illustration style retro watercolour doodle, entirely from imagination. Hence the figures have no basis in reality"life drawing", they are just my own imaginative style. "Real people"look very different. This is my stylised interpretation. Thanks for looking.

Some shoulder studies using a statue by Borromini. The muscles on this guy were bizarre and somehow still anatomically correct. Medium: Charcoal on Newsprint Time: 30 min x 3

Last weeks life drawing. Watercolour on paper, A3, 30 minute pose

This model was muscular and handsome. Not sure I got that right in the drawing. I could not fit the feet and had to draw the hair in the margin.