2018 unposted

 Diggin' through some old stuff that didn't make the cut.  Potential here but just not that good.

No drawing last night (again) so...

 More from that 2020 session.  Shadows, shapes and highlights all with lost edges.  Signature image of Tayla from yours truly.

From 2020

 A subtle little study in shadow and light. Oh, yeah, technically known as chiaroscuro.

From last year

 Lady A looking like she is at a Jazzercise session.

Rough start

 Standard pose.  The usual unfinished sketch.

A bit cartoonish

 Not enough time in the pose for me to accurately capture Miss P's visage.

Shadows and light

 Fun little sketch.  We broke up the last 45 minutes up into two different poses since the first pose was supposed to go until the end, but the model bit off more than she could chew.  She was game to try and hold it but I thought it was cruel so we departed from our normal schedule and it worked out well.

This was from last week since we didn't have a model available to hold our usual Thursday session.

Legs

 Okay, I love drawing foreshortened legs.  Not sure why but I really seem to find my "drawing zen" with these poses.

Conté, charcoal, compressed charcoal and smudge

 A quick, fun little sketch.  A mixture of medium (kinda).  The conté was not the good stuff but it worked well enough.

My kingdom for an eraser

 The trouble with scrounging up drawing implements is that you can't always find everything you need.  The stick Becca was using moved considerably during the pose.  Would love to have repositioned her right arm and the correct foreshortening of the prop.  Still, I really like all the forms and the movement this pose afforded.

Becca in terra cotta

 I had to forage to find some tools to work with last session.  I found a few pieces of terra cotta conté and, although they were tiny chunks and difficult to manipulate, I did a few pieces I'm not completely embarrassed by.  Red conté really does make everything look better.

Gestures of Becca

 I didn't pack my charcoal and had to make due with what I could scrounge at the school.  Not too bad but I could have used an eraser.  You'll see as the set continues next week.

Seated

 The long pose.  And yet it wasn't long enough.

Just a start

 Another partial.  When will the madness end?

Lady in progress

Just could not get a handle on this.  I loved the angle of the head but for some reason I had a lot of trouble with capturing it.  When I get that way I start to handle the charcoal (paint, ink...) like a weapon instead of a scalpel.  As much as I don't like this drawing I share it to show that, more often than not I'm merely trying to figure it out.  When it works, well that's just icing on the proverbial cake.

Take a stand

 Lady B gets a bit haughty with her hands on her hips, daring us to draw her.  Challenge accepted.

Lady B returns

 Gestures (duh).  Some of the better drawings I did last night.  Just don't feel like I was on my game.

Miss P takes a long pose

 So much fun to draw this.  I spent far too long on her head but I adjusted three or four times during the process (my errors, not the model moving) so I could only get so far.  Could've spent the entire two hour session on this one.

A pensive Miss P

 I started getting more comfortable with our new model and was able to explore some of the shapes and how they interact with one another.  Nice cast shadows add to this pose.

Knees

 Would really love to finish this one.  Nice pose with some great tension and mass.  A view under the jaw and just the simple shapes of her glasses.  Oh, yeah, and the knees.  I love rendering knees.  Sigh, I gots a problem...