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Life Drawing

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Hello.
Out here in Tucson, Arizona I've been attending a life drawing session every few weeks. You get to pay $7 for a three-hour session with a model either nude or clothed. These are a few of my drawings from the latest sessions.

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A 10-minute session of gesture drawing to loosen you up.

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A 20-minute session. I focused mostly on portraits during this session to practice facial features. I did this one in water soluble graphite on craft paper.
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Conté drawing on sand paper. This is my first time experimenting using white conté for highlights. I usually just let the paper be the highlight, but this paper was rather dark in tone.
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I forced myself to use a media I couldn't erase—in this case, an ink pen.

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White charcoal on black paper. Never used this before but I will definitely try again in the future. I'd love to do a darker skin-toned model in this way with much more obvious lighting.
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Costumed model using charcoal on newsprint.
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I just really like the way this gesture turned out.

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