The eyes have it

 Oh, I was loving working on this.  Decided to take my time with it and not get obsessed with finishing the rest of her face.  If you drop by this blog you won't be surprised by incomplete studies and vignettes.  Just my thing, I guess.

A ten and a fifteen

 Conté and charcoal.  Surprising that I got more done in 10 minutes than in 15?  Not really.  Sometimes I get lost in the lines.

45 minutes of drawing joy

 Nothing more to say other than I had a blast working this one.  Such rich tones and wonderful shapes.  Fun, fun, fun...

All about the arm

 This may have started out being a study of the waist and hip and then I got distracted with her arm.  Just a lot of fun getting it to be more than a couple of tubes with a wrist.  This was a great study.

Feeling a bit, um, sketchy...

 Gestures, donchaknow.

My favorite of the evening

 Really love the gesture of this pose.  I'm even happy with the rendering.  I guess that means I'm happy with this sketch.

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.

Gestural beauty

The quick sketches of Dylan
 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fifteen minutes again

This one deserved more time.  I would love to have gotten to her head and neck in a more meaningful way.
 

The fifteen minute face...

 ...without eyes.  (Apologies to Billy Idol for twisting his lyric)

The two 10 minute drawings

 Just kinda gettin' warmed up with these.