Our first night at MSU-B

The local university, Montana State University-Billings, has allowed us to host The Black Hand Group at the school. After a little confused start it seems that it is a good start for us. Our model was the same model who sat for us when we opened at the Yellowstone Art Museum. I hope this all works well for us. Here is the first sketch of the night. They do get better.

Solid sketch

I had a blast drawing this one. I love how the shapes all mimic one another starting with the chin and moving to the mouth barrel, then the 'stache up to the nose and finally the forehead. Heck, even the gullet follows the round shape that is a theme with this sketch.

Just sumpin' 'bout Jeff's face

It's just so much fun to draw.

Ambiguous

Simple is as simple does. Surprisingly, I like this. Just a lot of searching with the charcoal.

The Girl With The Faraway Eyes

Kind of dating myself here with the Stones reference but too bad, I'm gettin' old.

Jeff-stures

Thanks to Jeff for coming to our aid and modeling for us last night. Here are the gesture drawings from the session.

Model modeled

A longer pose afforded the time to really invest more interest in areas of the model. I had fun with this.