Sketchbook
Posted: February 9th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Portrait, Sketchbook | No Comments »Here are a few sketches from my sketchbook, some copied from master drawings and others from photos.
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Here are a few sketches from my sketchbook, some copied from master drawings and others from photos.
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I haven’t done enough life drawing this Summer. But as the school year begins, off I go to practice what I teach. It was a pleasure to be at the TSA today because my favourite model, Murray, was working.
Here are a few drawings (10-20min) from this morning, plus the long pose from this afternoon.
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Here are two very small drawings of my parents, made of charcoal and red chalk.
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I took photos of my friend’s baby a few years ago, hoping to find the time to sketch her. I finally did!
Justine
red chalk and charcoal on toned paper
4.5×4.5
The model today was Helen. The top drawing is from the long pose this afternoon where I only stayed for half the session. It’s a good likeness of her and I’m happy with the drawing but I wish I had drawn it larger — the face is only about 10cm and I completed it too fast. At that size, I was afraid that if I kept on fussing with it, I would ruin it.
The drawings below it are 5-15 min poses from the morning session.
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The TSA had a new model today. Andrea is a dancer and did a great job for us. In spite of that, I only had an ok day — a few ok gestures and short poses, but nothing great. The long pose this afternoon went a little better. I got a good likeness of her and am satisfied with my attempts at staying loose. I’ve been reading Sherrie McGraw’s book on drawing and admire her style so I went for the red chalk. I generally avoid this medium because I find that everything often looks sickly sweet with it. Plus every drawing just looks better with red chalk — it seems like cheating somehow! In any case, I hope that’s not why I thought I did a good job today…
A 15 min pose from the morning:

I spent some time working on Sunday’s TSA drawing. I evened out the values and turned the form.

The product of today’s TSA open life drawing session. I’m a bit rusty — it’s been a while — but not a bad start to my Summer.