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Drawing in darkness

I was in two minds about posting these…not entirely successful drawings. Hey ho. Des was away so we had this other rather cool guy called George. We did some quick 4 minute poses to warm ourselves up (one example below middle) and then worked for the remaining one and a half hours on this drawing below. It got crazily dark in the studio so that when we finally put some lights on the full horror of my drawing was revealed with only 20 minutes left to redeem it in some way. Also the model was coughing and scratching and moved in and out of the pose constantly - so that I found myself scrambling after the pose and changing and changing and changing. I ended up having hysterics (laughing, that is - not losing my rag) as we all looked around to one another in a rather exasperated manner.

On Fridays I do an anatomy class at the art school too - each week we focus on a different part of the body, learning about the bones and muscles that are behind the mechanics and then spend the afternoon drawing from the model. It’s all very interesting but my drawings don’t seem to ever be that successful. Anyway - here’s a bit out of my sketchbook showing work we did covering the torso and the shoulder/top arm section.