Drawings

Here are my 10+-minute sketches from last night’s drawing studio.

The above were 10-minute poses. I like the one on the right. It’s also the closest likeness I got to her face, all evening.

20-minute pose. This one is okay. The only part I really like is her left arm.

20-minute pose. This is my favorite of the evening. I made her face look too old, but I captured the pose (all except for her right leg — don’t know what’s going on there), and the shading around her collarbones is purest eye-hand communication; I drew exactly what I saw, without thinking, and I got it.

This was a 20-minute pose, the last of the evening, and I was kind of tired by this point, and I had to move to a different spot without an easel. You can see I ran out of time to do much to her face, but I loved her turn-of-the-century shoes so I had to include those!

I didn’t feel as “on” this evening as I have the two previous times, but I don’t think you can really tell that much in my drawings. It was more noticeable to me in the moment; I just didn’t feel as inspired (in spite of the Yo-Yo Ma Bach cello suites and Mozart Requiem we had on the stereo).

**edit**

No, I take it back. Looking back at my previous two studios, I can tell the difference between these drawings and those. I don’t know if anyone else would be able to see it, but I can. There’s just… some level of verve missing in these. Confidence. Something.