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.

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.

Gestures of Dylan

 Our last session with Dylan for a while yielded some wonderful poses.  Gestures, anyone?

45

 I was really enjoying this one.  Of course, foreshortening is a favorite of mine.  I love the way the pose draws the eye across the legs and then into the torso in a reverse Z pattern.  I think leaving her head out of the drawing gives the sketch more legitimacy than having the eye stop with her face.  Or I could be wrong.

Fifteen

 So many shadows to work with that I didn't progress as far as I had hoped.  I like the texture that I applied, though.

The other ten minute pose

 Again, I was fascinated with shapes and wasn't concerned about creating a full figure.

First ten minute pose of the session

 I was really getting into the various shapes and didn't care that I didn't get even a wee bit close to a finished sketch.  Lots of smudging and sculpting with vine charcoal.

Back to work... hopefully for a long time

 Dylan has come back for a couple of weeks.  These are the gestures that got us all motivated for the rest of the session.

First 10 minute of the session...

 ...and it turned out to be my favorite drawing of the night.  Sometimes it pays to quit when one's ahead.

Languid

 Not a lot here but the long lines really speak to me.  I would have considered trying to finish this one but I wrinkled the paper and rendered that a moot point.