The Sunday marked the return from a really delightful trip to Montreal with Z- . That morning, after a few hours sleep I was restless enough that I headed over to the TSA, where S - was working, and set into some drawing. These were 10-minute poses.
These two 15-minute poses wrapped up the evening. The standing figure worked all right from head to waist, but the legs I set down are a little too short, and don't adequately convey a sense of bearing C- weight.
Below are two 5-minute and above three 10-minute poses. C- is a model who I had not drawn before. In the partial figure with arms crossed, she was trying to look stern. I didn't know that while drawing, and was debating about softening the set of her mouth, but felt it better to stay true to the expression I was seeing.
Which speaks a bit about my assumptions, that people would want to be depicted in the spectrum from calm to happy, but not in `negative' states like anger or unhappiness. ( though melancholy holds a place of poignancy in my mind, and thus okay to depict someone as such). A bite for thought, that.
These were 15-minute poses. In ways, I was additionally disappointed that these were the studies spilled on because I felt they were quite strong ones. But in retrospect, the fact that they are quite well-realised makes them able to withstand the interference.
I'm a Toronto- based artist. My focus is on the human form, primarily through drawing. I'm mostly posting work on Tumblr now(link below.) This blog remains a process-intensive diary of over 10,000 studies spanning more than 7 years.
(More finished work of mine can be found as well on my Flickr account - there's a link for that below as well)