The customary 45 minute pose that lasted 50 minutes

 And I still couldn't get an entire figure done.  Gotta stop getting hung up on details so early on in the process...

Sittin' purty

 Just never enough time to really sink my artistic teeth into some of these drawings.  This one has so much potential and yet I'll probably never get to finish it.  I do, however, like what I've started.

Almost Egon

 The shapes and masses that Dylan presented Thursday evening brought out the Klimt/Schiele side of me.  Not my usual manner but I kinda like it.  A bit abstract.

Gestural beauty

The quick sketches of Dylan
 

Really loved the shadows

 I really wanted to have the figure "emerge" from the shadowy depths of the background. Not there yet.45 minutes.

15 minute head study

 I was really enjoying this drawing.  Would love for this to have been the long pose just to spend more time with her bone structure.  So many wonderful shapes to draw...

Fourteen minutes

 We gave Dylan a whole minute break as her feet were taking a beating in this pose.  I only gave an indication to the aforementioned feet.  More time, obviously, just wasn't going to work.

Two ten minutes sketches

 Just enough time to get a partial study going.

Finally, back to life drawing. The gestures of Dylan

 Yep, little one minute studies.  Gotta get warmed up, donchaknow.

Last drawing from our most recent session

 45 minutes and barely got started.  I really wanted to play with the shapes moving in and out of the deep shadows.  Fun one to draw.

Again with the cool shadows!

 The finish may not be as interesting as the process was.  Given time, this would have rounded into a beautiful drawing.  

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy

 This would make a wonderful painting with great drapery and maybe some jewelry.  She was holding a styrofoam ball rather than a skull, but we all know what it represented.  Some wonderful shadows at play in this one.

Gentle shadows across the torso

 Simple headless torso sketch.  Just trying to work out the shadows and shapes.

Sorry for the delay...

 Took a trip out of town so I didn't get these shot before last night.  Here are the gesture drawings.

 Samm has really become a fantastic figure model.  She commits totally to giving the artists exactly what they want and has pushed her gestures to another level.  We are lucky to have her.

Twist

 This is my favorite of the session and it was the first pose of the night (sans the gesture poses).  In my  eyes, it all went downhill for me from this point.

Knees, shins and a little blue book

 I wasn't enamored with this pose so I just focused on the knees and the shadows.

Shadows and shapes

 Ran out of (say it with me) time.  This had a chance to be a pretty nice sketch.

45 minutes (or thereabouts)

 This was a lost opportunity.  I was having so much fun with manipulating the shadows that I didn't pay as close of attention to the basics.

Gestures with Patience

Scribble, scribble, scribble...
 

As per usual, the long pose

 

I was thoroughly enjoying the beautiful shadows and how informed the shapes and mass of the figure.  Really a nice pose to work from.