Gestures from a fun session

 Lady P and her one minute gestures.

My choice for the best effort of the session

 This study has some nice shapes and relations to it.  I'm even glad that it didn't get finished.

Better paper for the longer pose

 And yet it didn't help.  This one just didn't come together for me.  I wish I had put a bit more interest in her face but I left it 'til the end of the session and I just didn't get it worked out correctly.

Incomplete... like my thoughts

 A perfect example of running out of time.  I like what I was able to get done but ultimately this is just an exercise in noodling.

Drapery

 A little conté vignette to start the week. I really like the natural framing of this pose.

Gestures and, well, more gestures

What didja 'spect?  It's Friday, that's squiggly line day on this blog.
 

A whole week in one day

 We just returned from a trip to Phoenix to catch Tom Jones in concert.  So I just didn't get to post the drawings from last week.  So....

 

The gestures of Miss P.

 

 

 

And now we are caught up.  I'll be back to schedule tomorrow.  Check in for the next batch of gestures and the rest of the sketches.

Long, relaxed pose

 Actually, this was a pretty phenomenal pose.  Relaxed and serene.  This lighting was really nice and... well, I could have worked a bit faster.  However, I had a lot of problems with her head.  I just kept getting the proportion wrong.  I think I got it worked out at the end, however.  Just no time to polish it up.

A li'l tilt

 Switching up to charcoal and... well, it's a drawing. 

Seated part 648

 Lot's of sittin' down on this job.  It's the sitting still that is the killer.

I knee-d you to need me

Bad reference to a song from my youth.  Yes, I can say youth as a past tense to my status as a senior citizen (as recognized by AARP).  I prefer to think of 61 as the new 60.
 

Squiggly lines that kinda make sense...

 

You know... gestures

Long pose

 Pretty happy with this.  Made a major mistake (but since it ain't apparent, I ain't gonna point it out) but it still came out decent.  Really pretty happy with the face.

This was fun

 I could have spent the whole session working on this one.  So many great shapes and the sense of mass is just intoxicating (as an artist).

A bit of a twist

 A nice pose that I wish had lasted about twice as long.

Dancing around the shadows

 I kind of did a block in and then spent too much time trying to make the face look vague and smudgy. I should have concentrated on the figure instead.

Gestures after a missing a week

 Our group got back on track after missing last week due to technical issues.