2nd Entry for Sept. 12, 2010

 These were 5-minute poses from that morning.

1st entry for Sept 12, 2010

 

 

 

On the Sunday morning I got over to the TSA. D-   was working. These were some of the 1-minute poses that she started with.

2nd Entry for Sept. 10, 2010

  

These were a 5-minute and two 15-minute poses, which closed off my evening.  M- was as good as usual, but it took me 'til the latter half to get past drawing his head.

1st entry for Sept 10, 2010

On Friday I got back out drawing, and this time M-   was working.  These were some 5-minute and 10-minute studies.  As is often the case, I focused on his head to the point where no time was left to draw the rest of him.  His poses are very expressive, and I like to try to set them down, but his face does still trump that a bit for me.

2nd Entry for Sept. 7, 2010

These poses were all in the 20-minute range. I feel the top one is quite strong.
On the standing pose, I once again ran out of room for legs. Additionally, I have reduced the size of the back of S-   's head in the drawing one of the pitfalls of drawing flat, as I usually choose to, i=s that the top part of the page can get distorted because it is that much farther away from me while working (and being viewed at a much more oblique angle, too.)

1st entry for Sept 7, 2010

On Tuesday I made it out to Artists 25 - now that a class I taught on Tuesdays has finished, it is a drawing option again.
S-  , who is a new model, was working.  These are a 5-minute crouching pose above and two 10-minute poses below.  He is a very tall individual, and, like other tall people I've drawn, I found it hard at the distance I was at to get his whole figure on the page.  I liked how he used the stretch of his limbs in the more compressed short poses - they became quite abstract at times.

It was also one of the nights where my preferred large drawing boards had all been scooped up by others, so I had to make do with a piece of pegboard for a backing. in the standing sketch you can see that the dot pattern of the pegboard did impart a subtle pattern to the shading.

6th Entry for Sept. 5, 2010

These were 15-minute poses that ended the evening for me.

5th Entry for Sept. 5, 2010

After a longer break, we continued with a few more 1-minute poses.

4th Entry for Sept. 5, 2010

These were all 10-minute poses.

3rd Entry for Sept. 5, 2010

I got back for the evening drawing session as well.  S-   was there, and these are a couple of 1-minute poses and a 5-minute one that she did.

2nd Entry for Sept. 5, 2010

These are all in the 15-minute range. I spent quite a bit of time focussing on C- 's expression, with varying degrees of success. The standing back view is particularly strong, I feel.

1st entry for Sept 5, 2010

(Well, it's getting time to pick up the posting pace, I see...)
On the Sunday I once again rose to go drawing, and headed over to the TSA. I found it was C- working. These studies are all in the 10-minute range.

2nd Entry for Aug. 31, 2010

Below is a 15-minute study, above are two 20-minute ones from that evening. Overall, it wasn't one of my stronger drawing nights, but a enjoyable challenge, as always.

1st entry for Aug 31, 2010

On the Tuesday I went over to Artists 25, where I hadn't been for a few months. S- was there that night, and these are a couple of 5-minute studies and a 10-minute one.

4th Entry for Aug. 29, 2010

I stayed for part of the afternoon as well. The study below was the last short one I did that morning (about 20 mins) and the one above is on Japanese paper, and was about 1 hr and 30 mins of time spent drawing.

If there is anyone wanting to learn about life drawing, or many other areas of the visual arts, 12-week fall classes are starting this week at the Toronto School of Art. I teach life drawing and portraiture there, on Wednesdays and Saturday mornings. You can find out about all the TSA course offerings here.

Also, I won't be showing figure studies, but I have drawings on display today (Sept 19th) - in Trinity-Bellwoods park, at the Queen West Art Crawl.
You can find out more about the event in general here.

To get a taste of some of the work I'm showing there, check here.