SI Sketch Night "50's Housewife"

This was a very entertaining evening. The models were really putting on a show!

 20 min pose.

 20 min pose. For this one the model decided to change the pose after we had already started. Her body turned but her head stayed in the same position. When I moved on to her body I realized that I would have to invade the next page in order to get most of her in my sketchbook.

SI Sketch Night "Sitting Nudes"

After a while I started noticing that some poses have to be repeated which makes it interesting. All of these were done during different sessions but since they were too similar I decided to upload them together. They are all charcoal on brown paper.

 

 20 min pose.

20 min pose.

 20 min pose.

SI Sketch Night "Cabaret"

 20 min pose.

20 min pose.

 20 min pose.

SI Sketch Night "Caribbean Night"

This was one of the best sessions of last summer. The models were very interesting and they offered great posses. They were the kind of models that would be great to have during a 6 hour pose or even longer.

 10 min pose.

 20 min pose.

SI Sketch Night "My Favorite"

This was so far my favorite 20 min pose during a nude session on Tuesday. I remember this model being really energetic and dynamic with her posses. I really enjoyed this one. 

SI Sketch Night "Victorian Days"

 10 min poses

 

          20 min pose

 

Last pose of the night, 20 mins

SI Sketch Night "Portraits"

 Some 20 min portraits done with black and white charcoal with some Venetian Red drawing pencil.

 

SI Sketch Night "Nude Tuesdays"

These were done on different Tuesday nights at Society of Illustrators. I used black and some white charcoal on brown paper. Most of them were 20 min poses.

SI Sketch Night "Raggs to Riches"

 This was the first Sketch night where I went back to using Tombow markers. They are fast and easy to use. It was great to reacquaint myself with them.

 

20 min pose.

 

20 min pose.

20 min pose.

20 min pose. Last pose of the night.

Pratt Draw-a-thon!!

 This year was my first time doing the 12 hour Draw-a-thon at Pratt. It was an great experience being surrounded my many talented artists and friends working through out the entire night. My plan was to finish only 2 drawings that I could be happy with. The plan was working for the first couple of hours since I started to get really tired around midnight and the event ended at 7 am. These are the two drawings I came up with.

This was the first drawing of the night. It was a 3 hour pose. I was really enjoying working on this drawing since it was the begging of the night and the model was incredibly good and interesting. It was done with graphite on drawing paper 18x24.

 This was the second drawing of the night. It was a seven hour pose!! I started to slow down a lot after the first 3 hours and I decided to only focus on doing another portrait. I knew that it was going to be harder and harder to keep my focus and draw as I usually do as the night went on. Even though it was really tiring it was something I'll remember for a long time.