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Quick Charcoals
Hello all,
Recently a small Art Center sprang up near my home. They started offering studio sessions with professional models for a nominal fee, so I decided to start attending. I've been practicing Lon Haverly's drawing techniques for awhile, but it's been difficult for me to corral "victims", so I thought these studio sessions would be a good opportunity to get in some practice.
The models pose nude, and all the other attendees are mostly interested in figure studies. Not wanting to appear to be the odd man out, I go with the flow, but when the model gives a suitable pose, I'll rough out the figure and go for a portrait, or just do a head and shoulder sketch for a short pose. The lighting for these sessions has been from six halogen spots located in a circle directly above the model: not the best setup for portraiture, but it really brings out the shoulder blades and some of the other anatomical features. For portraits it results in double shadows under the nose and other undesirable (to me at least) problems, but I try to work around it.
The following drawings are all done with 1/4" and 1/8" willow charcoal. The drawings of the first model are done on Seth Cole #35 charcoal paper. The drawings of model #2 are done on Jack Richeson's 80 lb. drawing paper. No spray fixative is allowed at the sessions, so these may be a little "smudgier" than they once were. The sizes vary here, but all heads are between 5" (12.7 cm.) and 7" (17.8 cm.) high. I want to get some feedback on these from the forum, the folks you can trust! Hey Lon, you out there?
Model #1 - A 10 minute pose:
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