2nd entry for December 6th, 2009

These were mostly 15-minute poses, excepting the reclining back view, which was 20 minutes.
on that last pose I started - as I frequently do when no face is involved - on the left side of the page. There wasn't enough room to fit her whole figure on one page when I reached the right side, so I kept going on another page to fit her head. You can see the seam of the 2 pages.
Some days, a 24" x 36" page isn't enough.

3rd entry for November 3, 2009

These were all 3-minute poses. Three minutes is an ultra-generous gesture pose: time enough to deal a bit with faces and shading, but too short to get fussy.

3rd entry for November 1, 2009

These were both 15-minute poses.

With two people in the picture, the effective drawing time is more or less halved. Moreover, there is the additional challenge of relating their scale and proportions to each other. In that regard drawing becomes an extra-complex jigsaw puzzle: if the proportions are out somewhere on one figure, adjacent areas of the other figure may be too large or small. The negative spaces can be that much more interesting with two people to break up space, and if there is a sense of connection - physical or emotional - between them, it is richest of all.

I really like the challenge entailed by drawing a couple of people together. Usually in terms of strategy I will draw the figure I see the most of first, and relate the size and position of the second figure to the first one. That means remembering to place person 1 so there is enough space to fit person 2.