Saturday Life Drawing 5

The model is a retired dancer who takes wonderful poses.  How he managed to hold this one for 20 minutes at a time is a mystery.

I didn't get too far with this drawing because I had it pretty well-developed, only to discover I was about to run the head off the page (again!).  I wiped it out and started over.

Saturday Life Drawing 4

Saturday Life Drawing 3

When you get the figure right, it seems to relax on the page. I was happy with this one.

Saturday Life Drawing 2

Saturday Life Drawing 1

Saturday at PAFA 12

I'm sorry to say this was the last class. Back in September!

Saturday at PAFA 11

Saturday at PAFA 10

Saturday at PAFA 9

Saturday at PAFA 8

This is the same model that I drew here and here.

Saturday at PAFA 7

Saturday at PAFA 5

You might think it's twice as hard to draw two models as one, but it's really more like four times as hard. Both figures have to make sense, and the relationship between them has to make sense too. I really struggled with this one, as you can see by all the erasures.

Saturday at PAFA 4

Today was a strange class. The instructor, John Horn, was out sick, so it was just the students and the models, a man and a woman. The female model showed up late and posed for one twenty-minute block. During the break, she picked a fight with the male model and then left in a huff.

So we all wound up drawing the male model. He's the same model, in the same pose, as last week, so I drew him from a different angle this time.

Saturday at PAFA 3

John Horn came around just as I was about to drive the model's head off the page (again!) and talked me into starting over with the head and feet marked first — not a bad idea.

The male nude is more naked than the female nude.

Saturday at PAFA 2

Saturday at PAFA 1

This morning I went to the PAFA life drawing class — here's the result. The drawing on the right was done by the instructor, John Horn. When he came around to look at my work, he thought it was pretty hilarious that I had carefully delineated the model's body, while leaving a blank oval for her head. I'm not a people person, OK? (I added the head later.)

For me, this is one of the most difficult situations to draw — a skinny model in a simple standing pose. The result is a tight-ass academic drawing, not one of my best, but perhaps if I work through it I'll wind up better on the other side. Let's hope, anyway.