2nd entry for March 31, 2009

These were all 20-minute poses. I was continuing to experiment with compressing the tops of these studies while drawing them (at least the vertical ones)

2nd entry for March 29, 2009

These were 15-minute studies. I was still wrestling with scale, but in the bottom one (the last of the evening) I tried something unusual for me: realising that my seated position gave me a distorted view of the top of my drawing board, I slightly compressed the vertical forms at the top of the page as I was drawing. When I stood up, the overall proportions were a little better than ususal.
It was a sort of deliberate anamorphosis.

Entry for March 24, 2009

Another late arrival at Artists 25. E- was working this time. I had time to do these 4 poses, all in the 15 to 20-minute range.
I have to admit that the study of E- with her shoe was, in actuality, quite distorted perspectivally. It was like an anamorphosis, with the top of the drawing really small & the bottom part way too big. Reversing the perspective effect in photoshop makes this a quite well-proportioned study. I was standing looking down at my drawing pad, rather than my usual lazy-man sitting, and wonder if the changed angle of sight on my drawing led me to wrongly 'perspective-compensate' what was being set down on the paper.

That or I was just getting bigger as I kept drawing.