Every Day in May - 19
Last night I went to Figure Drawing at the Society of Illustrators in New York City. I think some of the people that I see there regularly go twice each week. I'd love to go twice each month, but will probably never go more frequently than that. This time I took my 9B woodless pencil and stumper that I played with when I was reading Bill Rankin's Fast Sketching Techniques book and loved using them for the longer poses. Here is one page for 2 min, 5 min, 10 min, and 20 minute poses. My new sketchbook is slightly bigger than my scanner and the person sitting next to me created charcoal dust periodically that drifted onto my page - so I cleaned them up as well as possible.
Two Minute Poses for each Model (2 of 20):
Five Minute Pose (1 of 4):
Ten Minute Pose (1 of 2):
Twenty Minute Pose (1 of 3):
Comments
One of these days I'm going to come and go with you! You are really making progress - that last one especially is great.
Posted by: Casey | May 19, 2010 12:48 PM
Lovely sketches ! Congratulations for rendering the attitudes in a few minutes. I love the "softness" of the lines in the last one !
Posted by: Martine Pittet | May 19, 2010 1:12 PM
Wonderful figures! I especially like the quick gesture sketches - they are quite expressive and the poses are so well captured.
Posted by: Ann | May 19, 2010 9:25 PM
Great job on all of these. It looks like you're doing really well with David Rankin's advice! I especially like the second to last one!
Posted by: Raena | May 20, 2010 1:16 PM
Your soft touch with the human figure continues, these nudes are quite lovely.
Posted by: sandy | May 21, 2010 12:12 PM