Category Archives: life drawing

Lying Down On The Job

My favourite pose each week at life drawing seshes is the recliner. I like it best when I’m not head on to the model, but observing from the head or feet, because it exaggerates the foreshortening, which I love. This one is great, really enjoyed it. I used black conte crayon and Daler Rowney artist’sContinue reading “Lying Down On The Job”

The Selfie Stance

Here are the first three short poses from last night’s life drawing sesh at Swansea Print Workshop, the two on the left are 5 minutes each and the one on the right, 10 minutes. I used conte crayons in black and sanguine onto a middleweight paper. I especially like the pose on the far leftContinue reading “The Selfie Stance”

Stretched Out

Here’s the second 30-minute pose from this week’s life drawing. I prefer to draw reclining poses from the head or feet, to practice foreshortening, but this is the place I was standing so I had to make do with this stretched out pose. I wasn’t too keen to begin with but once I started puttingContinue reading “Stretched Out”

Hard On The Model

Here’s the first of the 30 minute poses from last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I used sanguine conte crayon onto vintage paper size A2 – ish. It’s a good pose, really dynamic, but hard on the model, so much weight onto his right hand. A Chance To Own One Of MyContinue reading “Hard On The Model”

Just Back

Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and it’s late. Here are the quick poses that we start with, to get us warmed up. Two 5 minutes poses and a 10 minute one. I used conte crayon in sanguine and black onto some vintage paper, size A2. A Chance To Own One OfContinue reading “Just Back”

Walnut Two Ways

I used my home made walnut ink with two different tools at life drawing the other evening. I did the one above with a traditional dip pen, although I used a brush to do the hair and the swirly bits down the bottom. I find dip pens hard to use at first, I always pressContinue reading “Walnut Two Ways”

Doing It Differently

Here’s a 30 minute pose from life drawing session last week. I pushed myself to do something a bit different and blocked in the figure roughly with a square end brush and some of my home made walnut ink, thinned to a pale-ish wash. Than I worked into it while it was wet with aContinue reading “Doing It Differently”

The Three Quickies

Here are the three quick poses that we started with at life drawing last night, two x 5 minutes and one x 10 minutes. I used conte crayons in sanguine and black onto some A3 vintage paper. I haven’t worked with this model before and it takes me a while to get used to drawingContinue reading “The Three Quickies”

The Sore Coccyx

Spare a thought for life models. It’s really hard work holding a pose for ages. This evening, at Swansea Print Workshop, our poor model’s coccyx started hurting. You can tell by her face. Although to be honest it was great from my point of view because it was a fantastic expression to draw. I’m aContinue reading “The Sore Coccyx”

Drawing A Head

I thought I’d do a portrait at last week’s life drawing session. It’s good practice to try and get a likeness as well as a half decent drawing. Our model is a very striking looking person and is really interesting to draw, sculptural. I used sanguine and white conte crayons onto a slightly textured paper.Continue reading “Drawing A Head”