I attended the latest of the new(now-ish) life drawing group in my city which runs themed drawing events each month. This month’s theme was “Rome”, as articulated by a selection of props (which save for a big stick the model lent on a few times I actually mostly ignored!), and some nice music which I think was more Celtic-inspired than anything, but was fairly chilled and enjoyable, and definitely helped make a nice atmosphere for the evening.
The model was someone I’ve drawn before at other local life drawing sessions, who I think this time was enjoying playing with the props and striking some could-be-classical-world-inspired dramatic poses. He definitely has the right look for the Rome theme.
He also has a quite distinctive face; quite tall with high cheekbones, mostly balding, a strong nose, and a beard. I wasn’t taken by a lot of the poses, or at least the angles of them I landed on, so in many of my drawings I zeroed in on said interesting face!