2nd entry for June 4, 2018

Lina and Denis, slightly longer studies. Heliconian Club session, June 4, 2018. Oil-based pencil on paper, 18 x 24"

1st entry for June 4, 2018

Lina and Denis, short studies. Heliconian Club session, June 4, 2018. Oil-based pencil on paper, 18 x 24"

2nd entry for Nov 12, 2015

Ren joined in partway through the session, and the top three are of him and Jack. These are 10-15 minutes each, and the final study of all three is  20 minute. These are Progresso woodless pencil crayon on 18 x 18" sheets of Canson XL Drawing paper.

1st entry for Nov 12, 2015

On the Thursday night Collective session, Richard did some initial solo poses, and was then joined by Jack. These are all on 18 x 18" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper. The top three are done with a Pitt calligraphy-point pen, and the bottom two are Progresso woodless coloured pencil, on Canson Recycled Sketch paper above and Canson XL Bristol paper below that.

1st entry for Nov 2, 2015

Denis and Lina were working together at the Heliconian Club's Monday session. At top are a 10-minute and a 5-minute study. Below that are the 1-minute studies that started things off.
A wider selection will go up on Tumblr.
These are all Pitt oil-base pencils on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

2nd entry for June 15, 2014

These are a 15-minute study at top, a 20-minute one and a couple of 25-minute ones. The session went well for me and I was quite happy with the last study at botttom. It has a nice, gentle feeling of connection to my mind. I did enjoy working with two people who are close.  The other two wash studies are good studies and more interesting than many,  but there is not quite the clarity of the personality in them that the bottom one has.
The top one is Pitt pen on an 18 x 24" sheet of Strathmore Series 300 paper. The other three are all watercolour graphite pencil and Artgraf water-soluble graphite washes on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Montval watercolour paper.

1st entry for June 15, 2014

I went back to Artisans at Work on the Sunday morning, as a couple, Holly and Andrew, were back working. Once again it was good to have a couple who were so comfortable with each other's bodies, and who could keep still for extended poses.
The top three studies are 3-minute ones. The ones below that are around 10 minutes, and the botttom one is a 15-minute study. For the last two, I used a quick pencil underdrawing, but in the case of the bottom one that led to some preciousness in rendering Holly's head that doesn't work as well. Underdrawing can help with organizing proportion, but can also lead to trying to over-describe details.
Around this time I was halfway through teaching a 6-week costume and clothing class, and I think that shows in the handling of the couch ad its cloth covering.
All these are Pitt calligraphy-point pen on 18 x 24" sheets of paper; the top five are on Canson Recycled Sketch paper, and the bottom one is on Strathmore series 300 paper.

2nd entry for June 1, 2014

The tonal studies here are roughly twenty minutes each, and the line studies are 3 - 4 minutes apiece. The materials are the same as the previous post. I enjoyed working with the two of them, as they had a very good feeling of mutual comfort, and some good poses.

1st entry for June 1, 2014

On the Sunday morning I travelled out to a space I hadn't drawn at before. Called "Artisans at Work", it is an art studio and shop at Woodbine and Danforth. They have begun offering drawing sessions, and I was interested in a 2-person session they had scheduled for the Sunday morning.
The space was reasonably large and decently lit, and the couple, Holly and Andrew had a very nice chemistry with each other, and held poses together well.
The line drawings are all Pitt medium point pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper. They are a 3-minute and two 10-minute ones.
The tonal studies are 15 and 20 minutes, done with water-soluble graphite pencil and water-soluble graphite washes on 18 x 24" Canson Montval watercolour paper.

4th Entry for Feb 22, 2011

The upper study of H-  and A-   is a 20-minute one, with 8B graphite on 18 x 24" Japanese paper.

The one below is 25 minutes, with the same materials.
There was a nice rapport between the two of them, and while it verges on cliche, the interplay between A-  's lean-ness and H -   's fuller forms worked well.  Drawing two people together like this is something I really enjoy. It happens very rarely, but when it does, it requires all my focus to keep all the shapes in sync with each other. That worked pretty well at points on this evening.

3rd Entry for Feb 22, 2011

Above is a roughly 10-minute study, with graphite on cartridge paper.  Below was a 20-minute study, also done with graphite, on 18 x 24" Japanese paper.

2nd Entry for Feb 22, 2011

In order from the top, these are two 5-minute studies, then two 10-minute studies of A - and H-  .
Graphically, I like the 2nd one down, where H-  's image is lighter in the background. It was a happy accident - I ran out of time to set her down any more than that.

These are shown in the order they were drawn, and you can see how I got more connected to the drawing as each pose they did progressed.

All of these are 8B graphite on 18 x 24" cartridge paper.