A return to Shawna

Shawnas back.  Great musculature.

Still older stuff

On a good note, I had a couple of pieces sold in the last couple of days.  One at Party for Preservation and the other in the Miniature Show at the Bradford Brinton in Big Horn, Wyoming.  Makes it worth all of the effort.

Older stuff... again

This is from about 6 months ago.  Sheesh, I hate not having my Thursday night drawing session.

Took a break

But now I'm back in front of my computer.  Another older piece.

Heavy shading

I got a kick out of pushing the shadows in this one.  Lots of great shapes to work with here.  Shawna sure gives the artists a lot to draw.

Great knees

I seemed to have been captivated by her legs on a couple of sketches.  Such great shapes and the knees just screamed "Draw me!!!"  Therefor the rest of the sketch suffered.  Oh, well, it was a lot of fun.

Just some marks

Sometimes I just get mesmerized by the lines being drawn and just seeing what comes out of the paper.  Marks on paper... that's all it is.  And somehow we make those marks turn into an image.  Pretty cool the way our brains work.

Channeling my inner Zorn

Well, at least this kind of reminds me of some of Anders Zorn's imagery.

Shawna's gesture poses

I could probably spend the whole two hour session just drawing her in gesture poses.

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Pretty self explanatory, eh?

Hmmm... I guess I missed a post

So here are two images.  Not sure why I forgot to post.  Gettin' old, I guess.

Pretty loose line work

Just kinda let it go with this one.  I like the freeform movement of the lines and the very basic placement of the shading.

Let's skip the gestures

I was all over the map stylewise last night.  I tried to be a bit more sensitive with my technique on this one but it didn't carry over to the rest of the drawings.

Knuckles

My favorite sketch of the night.  A lot of delicate lines and shading made this fun to work on.  This one just seemed to grow out of the paper, taking shape in pieces rather than filling in a larger space... if that makes sense.

Well, ain't that special

Nice pose with the hands on her hips.  Great musculature coupled with the scoop of her back.  Too bad this was a ten minute rather than a fifteen minute pose.  Would like to have gotten her head into this one.

Deep seated

Interesting pose with so much of the lower body being hidden by the seat.  I had a lot of fun drawing this one and would like to have finished off the right knee.  Alas...

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Simple head study that could have benefitted from a bit more time.  Ain't that the case with a lot of art?

Gestures of Shawna

A few gestures of Shawna.