Drawing Week: January pt. 5: Quick studies

Last Tuesday's life drawing class was fairly productive. Lots of short poses and quick sketching. Here are some studies I did in carcoal:

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(15 mins)


(10 mins)


We had two models for the enire day in a large twin studio, so there was plenty of space to move around and draw from as many angles as we wanted. Here's a 30-minute pencil sketch of the same pose from a different view:


...a vague attempt at studying the planes and muscles of the form as described by the light in the studio.

Anyway, here's another quick charcoal sketch. Different model, same day:



and one more pencil study of the first model:

(15 mins)