1st entry for May 15, 2011

On the Sunday afternoon, I came in for the final hour. C-   was working, and I just worked on the one study. This is done with hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" cartridge paper.  In hindsight, the lower part of her legs are a little too short.

2nd entry for November 22, 2009

These were 10-minute and 15-minute poses, as memory serves. D- is a competition bodybuilder as well as sometimes art model. It was interesting drawing him as his upper torso development was noticeably greater than most of the people I draw. As such, the drawings initially looked out of proportion while drawing, until I accepted that no, there is the massiveness there.

As a mature individual, his face shows a lot of life and experience, which is also engaging to draw.

2nd entry for October 6, 2009

These are a 10-minute back study and two 20-minute studies. That night I was hovering at the edge of catching a cold, and my drawing was not as fast or as focussed as I would have liked. E- 's poses were all very good. I notice now I was consistently giving E- a head that was a little too small.

1st entry for June 5th, 2009

There were more compelling things to do than life drawing on Thursday night - it was the cast & crew screening of "The Spine", which is a new animated film by Chris Landreth. Some ink drawings of mine (the `Handguy' series, from my "Unique Journal" drawing collection) were the starting point of one of his character designs. It is a remarkable and troubling work - what you might expect if Tolstoi or Chekhov and Dali had collaborated in CG animation.

On Friday, family stuff tied up my early evening, but I did arrive in time for the last hour of the Friday drawing session. D- was working, and this is one of the
15-minute poses she took. There was also a head study that was too awkward. The standing pose worked out better, but I have reduced her head in Photoshop about 10% from the original, owing to an obvious scale jump in the drawing from head to body.
A good argument for stepping back regularily from a drawing in process, to correct these irregularities in mid-process.