Model: Monica

I’d do better if I did more than 2 hours of practice per week.

Under-drawing with 4H. Over with 3B.

Model: Megan

Seemed to have lost my way. Might help if I did some practice during the week rather than compressing all my efforts into 2 hours of a Sunday morning.

Trying to focus on specific details. And to include hands and feet. And something of the face.

All using a B.

The two gestures were each 5 minutes.

The more detailed sketch was 20 minutes.

Mostly B. Extended gestures.

Princes Hill in the old community centre beside the cemetery.

Model: Annie.

A couple of extended gestures.

Saying farewell to Nellie. May be the best photo I’ve ever taken.

These are mostly from the morning at Princes Hill. $15 for two hours. About ten of us in the loft of a creaky old building with the one model. Excellent group. Will go again.

I did nothing to the images – so all the redraws are easily seen. In contrast to what some of the other artists were doing – a long pose was 20 minutes – I have a lot of practicing to do…

Must remember what the model told me: “Don’t worry… you wont fuck it up.”

Separate post for this, because I like it.

Last Sunday, 10-4.40pm. Strangely exhausting. Catherine was a twitchy model.

Charcoal, and 2B and HB.

Short-beaked echidna. Using a variety of pencils from 2H to 5B. You can see the shape lines (cylinder) used to flesh out body parts. Crap – but crap that is done, rather than just thought about.

Oh, and they do have surprisingly long peg-like claws. Not that this improves the weird posts in his front paw, but still.

This was the first sketch scanned with the Canon Pixma. Settings: photo; jpeg; 600 dpi.

Drentse Patrijshond. A Swedish KC registered breed. Dog-a-day. About 45 minutes.

Dingo. Dog-a-day.

You can only do so much fixing before you have to break out the eraser. The eyes and the breadth of the nose never looked right (and still don’t). Dog-a-day.

Like a lot of these sketches, about 25-30 minutes.

Wolf. Dog-a-day.

Xoloitzcuintli. Mexican Hairless Dog. Dog-a-day.

Whippet. Dog-a-day.

Dog-a-day. Graphgear.

Continuing the theme of one good sketch followed by one awful sketch. This was a five-minute quicky, but still…

Scotty dog. Dog-a-day.

Gaze upon the gestalt dog and despair!

Dog-a-day. (It’s a rottweiler, allegedly.)

Ordinarily, I would type something here. But it’s all scribbled on the pic, so I wont.

Dog-a-day.

Just about best sketch so far.