Susannah modelled at the final January session. Lots of nice poses, but my drawings were a bit hit and miss.
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Life Drawing, 15th January
Katrina modelled at this special 'animation' life drawing session with short poses. Normally there are poses from 2 minutes up, but we had several 1 minute poses and (after I begged) some 30 second ones too. We began with a sequence of 1 minute poses.There were...
Life Drawing, 18th December
There were three models at this session, because Bill stepped in for the first few minutes as Francesca and Pete were delayed! I tested out a new 10B pencil which was lovely to draw with. I liked being able to easily switch between a soft and sharp line (something I...
Life Drawing, 11th December
Marta held some interesting poses at this session. Challenging, but good fun.
Life Drawing, 4th December
Morna modelled for our first December session. I was struggling with the conte pastel so did most of the drawings in pencil.
Life Drawing, 27th November
I have been snowed under with a job, Christmas, and a new niece (all very exciting but quite hard work) and that's meant my life drawing from last year has been put aside until now. First up are drawings of model Gina, from back in November!
Sketches at the Museum
I was in Edinburgh yesterday for an animation event, so I spent some time drawing in the museum on Chambers Street. I sketched a sperm whale skull and a haughty-looking llama as well as some of the visitors. The sketches are pen on paper, but the tone was added...
Fabric and Model
Last week I went to a show of students' work where Katrina Ellis, a weaver and life model, modelled with some of her fabric. It was fun, and challenging, to draw.
Elsa Gestures
My dog is notoriously difficult to photograph, let alone draw. This afternoon I managed to capture her in the garden as she munched on a very old tennis ball and an offcut from someone's fence.