Online life drawing

I love life drawing, but all classes were cancelled during the lock down. There was a huge boom in life drawing via Zoom, with models desperate to carry on working somehow. I’d never done it before, but it does feel a bit like very soft porn at first. Looking at naked people over the Internet. But it works.

There seem to be two approaches. Live or saved videos of models posing, or still photos to work from. Pros and cons to both. One definite pro is that models can adopt extremely foreshortened poses, with the camera below their feet or over their heads or in very difficult/unstable poses which they can’t hold for more than a few seconds. These are just a few. There are so many that I have been binding them into collections.

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Just a sample of work from online model sessions.

Portrait of an artist

I can’t remember who this is, but I think she is a print artist. The photo came up in a search fit lino cut images and I liked it. She had flame red hair, which doesn’t show in monochrome. At least, not by any technique that I know of. 

Garden pheasant

A beautiful cock pheasant has taken up permanent residence under our bird  feeders. This doesn’t do him justice. 

Chatting to a donkey

My friend Jane chatting to a resident on her donkey sanctuary. Sketch of a poor photo but a nice image. 

Don Quixote

A 20 minute sketch of an old Spanish carving I inherited from my parents nearly 30 ears ago. I’ve always loved him.