Entry for Oct 1, 2015

A few studies of Murray from the Jam Factory session. The others will go up on Tumblr in the next while.
These are Pitt oil-based pencil on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper

2nd entry for Oct 29, 2015

These are a couple of 10-minute studies above, a 15-minute and a 25-minute one below. These are all Koh-I-Noor Negro oil-based pencil on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Drawing paper.
The space was crowded, which I find challenging, but the poses, and Addi and Jacki's comfort with each other, balanced that out.

1st entry for Oct 29, 2015

At a Thursday night Collective session in Riverdale, Addi and Jacki made a return visit. These are two-minute studies above and a couple of 5-minute ones below. All are Pitt pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

Entry for Oct 26, 2015

Mixing it up with some different approaches on the Monday morning with Amanda at the Heliconian club. All are on 18 x 24" sheets of paper.

Entry for Oct 22, 2015

Jemma worked on the Thursday night for a Collective session. Top to bottom, these are two 1-minute studies, two 10-minutes, a 15-minute and a 20-minute study.
Pitt pen on Canson Recycled Sketch above, oil-based pencil on Canson Bristol paper for the bottom two.
All are on 18 x 18" sheets of paper.

2nd entry for Oct 18, 2015

These are, I believe, two 10-minute studies, a 15-minute one and a 20-minute at the bottom. The top two are Progresso woodless pencil on Canon Recycled Sketch paper. The lower two are oil-based pencil on Canson XL Watercolour paper.
Posting this session marks a personal benchmark. My math may not be dead-on, but I am confident that as of now I have 10,000 drawn studies of people posted on this blog. This blog began then as a replacement for an earlier Yahoo 360 blog I was keeping.
At first I was more picky in what I posted, but over time I decided it would be interesting to be able to see the context of the range of quality within which good drawings occur. So I have made this a sort of `process diary' and posted anywhere from 50% to 80% of most drawing sessions.
There has been a lot of material explorations up to now, and it's all here to see.
At this stage I'm not going to altogether quit posting here, as I like sharing work, but I am going to tail off how much goes up, and stick mostly to sharing strong process pieces, and unusual or out-of-the-ordinary sessions here.
A select number of the strongest studies will be up on the Tumblr as well.

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1st entry for Oct 18, 2015

It was a chilly Sunday morning in the Jam Factory space. Polyna was working that day. I decided to work more loosely, as I've been focusing on crisp extended contours for a while.  These are some 1-minute, 2-minute and 3-minute studies done with Pitt pens, and three 5-minute studies below done with oil-based pencil.
It seems that for me, drawing from life 3 or more times in a week yields the fastest, most responsive work. That's when I feel most in my `zone' of drawing from life. Of late, a couple of times a week seems to be more the average. My drawing has been feeling just that bit more awkward, something I definitely felt drawing Addi and Jacki. So this session was a good one to loosen up and give more exercise to spontaneity of touch.
Also, I have been conscious for quite a while of the effect of wanting to generate `postable' works to share here and on Tumblr.  It's a good motivator, but also inclines me to opt for approaches with dependable outcomes on a steady basis. I have lots of those here now, and it's getting time to get less output-oriented ...