40 minute study

 

Charcoal in forty.

20 minute study

 

Charcoal in twenty.

10 minute study #2

 

Conté in ten.

10 minute study #1

 

Charcoal & conté in ten.

Oddly, my favorite sketch of the evening

 I just fell in love with the left hand and arm.  The right foot was starting to come together but I ran out of time.  This just felt like a solid sketch.

The long pose

I had some fun delving into the way the shapes and masses related to each other.  Again, more drapery to complement the languorous pose.  
 

Kinda abstract

 Marks and shapes and shadows.  Even a little crumpled up drapery.

Patience in charcoal

 Quick little vignette in ten.  Nuthin' much.

Gestures of Patience

 Always a pleasure when Patience has the time for us.  Fun gesture poses.

Favorite sketch of the night

 Probably my most well thought out drawing of the evening.  Love the nature of the cast shadows and the ambiguity of the figure itself.

Relaxed

 The long pose for the evening.  It turned out... okay.

Long pose

 I'm happy with a couple aspects of this one, but overall I just didn't focus on making an interesting drawing.

Kinda design-y

 

I like where this was going, just didn't quite get there.

Torso...

 ...what else is there to say.  Nothing particularly interesting about this sketch.

Another five

 A little conté head study that didn't turn out too bad.

45 minute head study

 Pretty pleased with this one, as well.  The lights were doing there job during this session.  Some great cast shadows to work with, for sure.

Shapes and shadows

 Yeah, I like this.  I finally got a hand that I'm not frustrated with and some pretty nice cast shadows.

Vague

 Kind of an amorphous little drawing.  There are some aspects that I like and some that are just, well, not finished.

Head study

 A little five minute study of Samm's noggin.

Gestures of, you guessed it, Samm

 Yep, we are down to Samm as our only consistent model.  As much as I love drawing her, we really need to give her a break on occasion and find two or more models to work with our group.