Sunday, January 24, 2016

2nd entry for Jan 11, 2016




Thesea are a sheet of 5-minute studies; a couple of 10-minute ones and a pair of 15-minute studies at the bottom.
All are done with oil-based pencil; the top 3 are on Canson Recycled Sketch paper, while the bottom sheet of studies is on a sheet of Canson Bristol paper that had been prepared with a light wash of cool grey ink. All are 18 x 18"

1st entry for Jan 11, 2016






On the Monday night, Peter was working at the White House Art Project session. These are a some 1-minute and 2-minute studies and a 5-minute one, all done with oil-based pencil on 18 x 18" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

2nd entry for Jan 8, 2015




These are some 10-minute studies, a 15-minute one and a 20-minute study at bottom,. All are done with oil-based pencils. The bottom one is on a sheet of Canson Bristol paper prepared with a light ink wash, and the others are all on Canson Recycled Sketch paper. All are 18 x 24"

1st entry for Jan 8, 2016





On the Friday evening, Mylissa was working at ARC studio. These are some 1-minute, 2-minute and 5-minute studies, all oil-based pencil on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Entry for Jan 4, 2016









Marlee worked at the White House Art Project's Monday night session that week. These are a few sheets of 1-minute and 2-minute ink studies, and some longer studies with Progresso woodless coloured pencil: two 5-minute ones, a sheet of 10-minute studies, then four 15-minute, studies at the bottom. All are on 18 x 18" sheets of paper. The bottom two are Canson Bristol Paper with a light ink wash to make it less white; all the others are on Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

Wednesday, January 6, 2016

This blog

Thanks for visiting. This blog contains a fairly complete documentation of my figure drawing process from December 2008 to October 2015, which comprises some 10,000 studies.
Since then, I'm now posting most of the current studies I like on my Tumblr.
Newer entries on here are more complete sets of studies of volunteer or new models' work, or unusual drawing sessions, plus the occasional drawing experiments that intrigue me.

Lots to dig through here, and if you want to make a donation (lower-right,)  I'd love to bring in people to make images of bodies that would expand the spectrum of young, thin, female and light coloured bodies. Which seems to mostly be what's available via existing open drawing sessions these days.

Thomas.

Entry for Dec. 29, 2015









Lisa was the volunteer model at the Ben Navaee Gallery session on the Tuesday night. These are three 1 and 2-minute studies at top, five sheets of 5-minute and 10-minute studies, and a roughly 20-minute one at the bottom.
All are on 18 x 18" sheets of paper; the top three are Pitt pen, the other six are Cretaclour Nero pencil. The bottom one is Canson Bristol paper prepared with a warm ink wash, and the others are all on Canson Recycled Sketch paper.