Life drawing

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Life drawing

With the long weekend stealing the last life drawing session it was great to get back to the Sando and put some marks on paper.

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Life drawing

Another fortnight down and complete sketches are at a premium. Lucky for those of you who like pictures more than words I did make it to life drawing at the Sandringham once again, where we were treated to an excellent model and cold beer.

I had attended with a back up plan of creating cartoon characters of the other artists in attendance, but we don't always get models of this calibre, so i'll let that back up plan wait for another day. 

I did manage to play with a few different styles and even reached back to high school days when I spent hours doodling with black biro through my workbooks – they are towards the bottom.

Life drawing

With a full week behind me I only have these sketches to show from life drawing with Sophie of 'the Monday Project' fame. 

The adventures for this week that distracted my sketching time were Fire: a retrospective, friends from Wagga (who left with my alley bike to take on Tour de Rutherglen), a 3 year anniversary and dinner with friends. Hopefully next week at least one night will be spent between the sheets (of my sketchbook).

Life drawing

It has been a while but with a little reminding from a friend I dropped in on another life drawing session at the Sandringham in Newtown. This time with a male model who made some great shapes even if i didn't do the greatest job of capturing them.

The little sketch in the top right of the first picture is of one of the local street people who makes a nuisance of himself by lighting little fires on the street. People were ignoring both the fire and the person as they walked past.

Life drawing

Just for something different I have joined the Sydney Sketch Club to motivate me to put pencil to paper more often. The first event to pop up was life drawing. Having never done life drawing before it was great to have a group of people who were so professional about it. I can guarantee that I was the only 'artist' using a tech pencil and a sharpie marker. Finding drawing the same thing (person) multiple times a little tedious, I resorted to changing my style for nearly every sketch. Needless to say I walked away clean, while the others has charcoal from fingers to elbow. The next event is an outdoor and I am looking forward to getting out and socialising.