Q

This guy worked for Network Q. It said so on his fleece.

He had brilliant definition on his eyes, and the sunlight only caught that even more. He was talking to two girls who sat, one aside him, one opposite, which meant he kept moving his head from one to another, and I had four goes at starting a sketch before I got something down I felt happy with.

More Life drawing

Went back for another session of life drawing this week. Love it.

But drawings too big to scan easily, so here are a couple more from the first session.

Don't look Mum ! Rude bits !

The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.

from Art and Fear - Ted Orland & David Bayles

Cyclist.

Couldn't see the bike and didn't feel up to making it up. Bikes are like rowing boats to draw. Your eye always knows when they aren't right.

Funny that.

People. out and about.

Hopefully, the last of the coats and hats for this year.

Although they are saying it will turn colder this weekend.

After hands... heads.

For a bit of hand eye co-ordination. See what I did there ? Did ya ? Did Ya ? What I did ? .....Oh never mind...

This guy knew I was sketching him and would not keep still. So I ended up with a page of false starts which I quite like.

Whereas this guy was so lost in tired daydreaming I think a meteor could have struck us all down and he would have been left blinking in the rubble saying " Sorry, I missed that ? " 

This one was also done on the way home from life drawing, and it amuses me that I used pencil instead of my usual weapon of choice, pen. Like that was the mode I had been set on that night, and nothing was going to change that. Like I had gone back to the factory default settings. And I was conscious at the time I couldn't get the shading as dark as I wanted, but it didn't figure to me why until much later.

You need hands...

At the end of the life drawing session we did a series of two minute poses.

But I was brain fried by then and not up to the effort of trying to catch it all in such a short space of time, so I just concentrated on the model's hands.

Which is always a pleasure to do.