Anya and Stephan

 The top sketch is of Anya, a model I truly wanted to draw for a long period of time.  However, she was the model for the sculptors and turn every five minutes as well as changing her pose after a full turn to accommodate each sculptor and their particular pose.  So I only got one five minute chance and I worked with a similar pose to "flesh" it out.  

  The bottom sketch shows both Stephan and Anya, separate poses, as well as a couple of different poses.  The upper right sketch of the nose and eyes is of Nora.  

Gettin' better

 The image of Nora was drawn on day one from the far end of the studio but she kept turning her head.   It didn't matter that much as my eyesight made defining detail in her face quite a challenge.  The image of Will was the one I did on the mezzanine studio where I was much closer to the model.  It was a single 2 hour pose at the end of the first day.

Gestures and poses cut short

 Most of these are from the first day, where I was still feeling my way around and trying not to be intimidated or try too hard.  The two single drawings were poses I thought were a lot longer than they were, hence I ended up trying to finish with very little in the way of structure to work with.  I share my poor efforts as well as ones I am proud of.

Some "finished" stuff

 This page is the result of three different poses.  All three major models are represented.  The upper right image is of Stephan leaning on his hoop, the prop he uses in his act with Cirque du Soleil.

I spent 3 fabulous days at The Figure Society symposium

 Here are some of my gestures.  We worked with three outstanding models in the main studio all three days.  Two of them are Cirque du Soleil performers.  Spectacular opportunity.  These gestures may not make a lot of sense to everyone but I can see exactly what I was doing in this mess.  I was limited on what I could get to the symposium so I was working on a 14x17 pad and was trying to conserve my paper, hence so many poses just overlapping one another.  Anyhow, the gestures, in no particular order...

Forty five head study

 I got pretty caught up in noodling the face and hand (a bit too much attention to the hand).  Still, there's some stuff I'm pretty happy with.  Not my best effort, though.

Twenty minutes and all I got was...

 ... a little shadow and an unfinished hand.  I am happy with how the arm rests on her left hand.  A bit more work on the drapery might pull this together.