Working with professional models is a privilege. I draw other people too, successfully and less so. Apart from the ability of a professional to hold poses, they don’t have any expectations from the artist. When I’m drawing or painting non-professionals, some, by no means all, can find it difficult to see themselves as I seeContinue reading “It’s A Privilege…”
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A Statuesque Head
This is one of the professional models I have been working with at Swansea Print Workshop’s Life Drawing group. She has a wonderfully sculptural, statuesque head and body. I’m trying to reflect that in my drawing here, using a fairly academic style. It’s a 15 minute pose and I used graphite onto paper. I haveContinue reading “A Statuesque Head”
Just A Quickie Or Two
I didn’t have my mojo with me this evening, or my spectacles, so I found the life drawing session quite difficult. For the last half hour I just made quick sketches of the other people there into my little A6 Indigo covered sketchbook with graphite.
A Random Head
Just a random head in graphite into my Indigo-bound A6 sketchbook. I like the way he looks, he suited my scribbly style.
Fun With Mark Making
This is a 15 minute pose from life drawing a few weeks ago. The young male model has fantastic hair so after I captured his likeness (much easier with profile I find) I had a play with his hair, getting into some mark making with my graphite. I’ll be running a weekend linocut course basedContinue reading “Fun With Mark Making”
The Short But Not Too Short Pose
After a couple of short poses at last night’s life drawing group at Swansea Print Workshop, we had this 10 minute pose. I’ve only worked with this model once before and I’m still getting used to her proportions. I’ll be running a weekend linocut course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting TheContinue reading “The Short But Not Too Short Pose”
Portrait Drawing: Week 13
Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and it’s late, so I’ll just post the first sketches I did, a 1-minute and a 5-minute pose in graphite. And now to bed with a cup of tea and a couple of cats. See you tomorrow. Nos da. I’ll be running a weekend linocut courseContinue reading “Portrait Drawing: Week 13”
The Portrait In Profile
I really like this profile sketch I did at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I think I’ll develop this into a linocut, I could have an interesting time carving the hair and beard. Maybe I’ll use a bigger piece of lino than I have for my previous ones, to cut moreContinue reading “The Portrait In Profile”
Sketching From Below
This was an interesting 20-minute pose at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. Our model stood on a table and he’s very tall anyway, so I was looking up at him. I’m a little dwt and I was sitting down so I had a good view up his nostrils and his beardContinue reading “Sketching From Below”
The Pensive Pose
This was the long pose at last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. It gave me time to really analyse what I was seeing. I found the pose difficult, it’s easier to draw in profile or semi-profile: these straight-on poses bring all sorts of problems. But it’s really good practice. I caught hisContinue reading “The Pensive Pose”
