This week I returned to life drawing once more at the inaugural meeting of a new life drawing group run out of a local artsy venue in an old church. A very lovely place to draw, with the big space and a nice sprinkling of cosy chairs or little tables to perch on.
My favourite part of the new group is that they’ve decided to go for all short poses, which I much prefer for some rapid action drawing of lots of poses. I don’t enjoy long poses so much, I tend to have a drawing I quite like after about ten minutes, unless I’m really digging a particular pose.
The drawing about is from the first five poses in a row, which were all extra speedy two-minute jobs. Part of the fun of the quickest poses for me is I almost always draw them like this, clustered on a page, making a neat composition in itself.
The second sheet below switched from a quick pose at the top to longer ones below. I really enjoyed that top pose, and in that instance would have welcomed it being a much longer one, but even though it’s just an outline compared to the other two I really like what I managed to capture of it.