Life Drawing CAM 5-17-16

This is a pastel on printmaking paper, a 25-minute study, and the last one of the evening for me. I'm satisfied with this one and at least I can say the work got better towards the end, not worse! I've had that happen too many times!

Life Drawing CAM 5-17-16

A quick 15-minute drawing after a long hiatus - so glad to get back. Graphite, white chalk on toned paper.

Last pose of the 25-minute segment

This on handmade pastel ground paper. It was almost like drawing upside down. I worked on it a bit in the studio. It has that weird light quality of that Lautrec opera singer poster. Upside down.

Part 3, 4, 5 etc. 25-minute drawings, sometimes longer

I had a obtuse night! I chose a different place to draw and I got these extreme foreshortened views or I got views that I decided to crop strangely.
Anyway, this is 25 minutes, layout in graphite, and develop color on drawing paper.

3-15-16 15 minute drawing

The 2nd phase of the process is 2 15-minute drawings. I always work on 18x24 paper. This is toned tan, toned grey is nice too - but it is just smooth drawing paper - not textured or toothy like pastel paper. Consequently, I can't layer a lot of color but in 15 minutes I don't have time to - which for me is a good thing: I work fast and then I overwork. 15-minute drawings are my friend as they seem fresher, more spontaneous!

Cameron Art Museum Life Drawing 3-15-16

I was asked how I start my process, so I thought I would give a mini-tutorial on how we typically do it at our group. To start with, we do 8 gesture drawings as warm-up and start the brain-hand-eye coordination. These poses are timed at 1 1/2 minutes each. This is pretty typical of how I start. I work on 18x24 newsprint and the broad side of a graphite stick. I make a quick pass to capture the general direction of the pose and then start with more defining lines. I don't worry about accurate details as you can see I corrected the head position from the first pass.
The next drawing is a 15 minute one.

CAM Life Drawing 2-16-16

Took this one home and worked on it. Pushed the values a bit - been working in too high value scale. Pink scarf was fun.