Entry for Dec 28, 2013 (Last entry for 2013)

(Here we are, a week into January and wrapping up the 2013 posts. There were 237 of them in total for the year, so roughly two posts for every 3 days or so. That's down from the nearly 500 posts for each of 2011 & 2012, but I also discovered that I could now include more than 5 images per post, which was not previously the case. This year passed also saw a number of big events in my life, for which figure drawing dropped off a bit from the previous year's involvement.)

On the Sunday, Nyda was back in town and came to work for the Sackville drawing session. The top three studies are 10 minutes each, done with Pitt calligraphy point pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper. The two below that are each 15 minutes using the same pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson XL Drawing paper (and the lower of the two sees a return of the oil-base pencil in the upper body shading..) The study second from bottom is water-soluble graphite on 18 x 24" 150 lb Maidstone paper.
The small 10-minute head study is the same paper/pen as the top three.

1st entry for Jan 1, 2012

On the Sunday, the new year began.  A-  was over at the TSA that evening. These are 1-minute studies, done with hard compressed U-Art charcoal on 18 x 24" Canson Sketch paper.

The beginning of the new year is a good point for some stats on the previous year. In 2011, there were some 2155 distinct visitors to this blog. Together they made  19,129 pageviews over the course of 6927 visits.

1st entry for Jan 2, 2011

The first figure studies of the new year.  I was still feeling rusty - and a bit under the weather - when I headed out to the TSA on the Sunday morning. These are above, a 5-minute study, and below ttwo 10-minute ones and a 15-minute one. Z-    was modeling this time - it was the first time I have drawn her.
These are all done with Prismacolor art stick on 20 x 30" cartridge paper.

The beginning of the new year is a good point for some stats on the previous year. In 2010, there were some 2084 distinct visitors to this blog. Together they made  17,647 pageviews over the course of 5538 visits. 

3rd Entry for December 17, 2009

These were both 15-minute poses that M- took. (the seated one might be 20). As is often the case when I've thrown myself a challenge or experimented in the early part of a drawing session, the later part of the time generated some strong drawings.

I'm still a little behind in psting drawings, but this is being written on New Year's day, 2010 (!), so a Happy New Year to any visitors here.

With the close of a calendar year, here are a couple of milestone numbers:
From Jan. 1 to Dec 31, 2009-

1,661 distinct visitors made 4,260 visits.
Those visits resulted in 8,649 page views (and each page has upwards of 10 drawings displayed...)
People spent an average of 1 min,41 secs while visiting, which means that a lot of visitors stayed longer than a cursory 10 second glance-and-go.

If I've got the math right, it means a total of about 100 hours were spent visiting this blog over this, its first full year. That boils down to almost 17 minutes of visiting a day. (Which is nothing to spit at, but probably 5 minutes less daily than I spent posting them, sigh...)

So thanks and hellos to all of you who have taken the time to visit thus far. I hope the work here is enjoyable for you.

Thomas

6th entry for November 3, 2009

These two 10-minute poses were at the end of the evening.

This post marks a little bit of a milestone, as it is the 400th post on this blog, since its' inception in early December 2008.

3rd entry for October 18, 2009

These were 10- minute and 15-minute poses that K- took. I was starting to get more `in groove' on these, I felt.

This post marks a tiny milestone in my worldview. I started posting life studies on this Blogger site in late November last year, and this is the 365th post I've made.

Being away from my statistics-gathering job, I'm talking a lot less about numbers and stats on the blog. (Also, the visit numbers are much less remarkable than the older Yahoo 360 site.)
But being post 365 (and still a month prior to a full year) that means that while I have not put up a post every single day so far, on balance I am averaging slightly more than one post a day this year, and that has been one of my goals - to have one-a-day drawing post. More like 2 or 3 a day, in practice.

It has been a good spur to stay disciplined in my life drawing practice, these last couple of years. Thanks as always to everyone who takes an interest and has a look at these.