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Life Drawing, 20th February

Life Drawing, 20th February

It's taken me a couple of weeks to put these online! A lovely session with Ana modelling. This time I felt a bit more comfortable using conte pastel to draw.

Study Squares #4

Study Squares #4

Here are some quick pen studies of the views from the train today – mist in front of trees, stubble in the snow, hedges, ploughed fields, footprints, snow melting.

Life Drawing, 6th February

Life Drawing, 6th February

Last week I had a good life drawing session with lots of dynamic and interesting poses. I drew in conte pastel for the first half, which was an attempt to shake me up a bit and loosen my drawings. Though everything felt a bit messy I think it was good as an exercise....

Knife Designs

Knife Designs

Early last year I created some concept art for a feature film. Unfortunately the prop I worked on has since been cut from the story, but I'm able to share it here with you. The first three images were quite general explorations to get a feel for what the director...

Life Drawing, 9th January

Life Drawing, 9th January

My first drawing session after Christmas, and I was quite rusty ... it took me a while to warm up. We had a break just as I was beginning to feel I could draw again!

Life Drawing, December 2017

Life Drawing, December 2017

What with packing up and moving across most of the country and Christmas and New Year, it's taken me a while to post some of my life drawing sketches from December. Here's a selection!

Life Drawing … with Dog

Life Drawing … with Dog

Janey was the life model at this Tuesday's session, and she brought her dog along! It was fun to do quick gestures of the dog while also capturing her lovely poses.

Life Drawing, October 31st

Life Drawing, October 31st

Andy was modelling at this week's life drawing. He held some great poses, including one where he played the guitar. As he was actually playing the guitar rather than pretending to, I feel the final drawing has real movement.