Weekly Update: Model Sketches Take 2

It’s nice to have new pens and inks in rotation. I’m enjoying Diamine’s Writer’s Blood more than I expected, Diamine Autumn Oak is fantastic with a Waterman superflex nib, and Pilot Iroshizuku Tsuki-yo is becoming one of my favourite inks.

Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes are hosting the OneWeek100People challenge again this year, and I intend to participate again. The challenge starts on the 3rd of March and officially lasts 5 days. I normally sketch from photos, but this time I want to see if I can do the entire challenge from observation only. It may take me more than 5 days, but I’m OK with that. Are you planning on joining the challenge?

I went to the local art museum again this week, to sketch models in the museum. This was the last time this event was run, and the place was packed with sketchers. I didn’t have the best of locations, but I made the most of it. I sketched with Faber Castell 9000 2B and 3B pencils mostly, and added a touch of colour with Faber Castell Polychromos. The ink sketches were done with a Staedtler Pigment Liner 0.5. The sketchbook I used was once again the French Pascale Éditions. The models did fewer 20 minute poses and more 10 minute ones, which meant scrambling a lot. I wanted to visit the museum after the event, but I was so tired from 3 hours of non-stop sketching that I just went home.

Harman Photo just came out with a brand new colour film, Harman Red. It’s a red-scale film, and I’m curious enough to try and buy a roll or two and test them out. I love the wild, wild results I got with Harman Phoenix and the Harman Red is basically Phoenix pushed even more into red-scale.

Here are the sketches from today, and I hope that you have a great week!

10 minute pose.
10 minute pose.
10 minute pose.
10 minute pose – the hardest pose to draw because of the angle of the head. Had a false start on this one, so had only about 8 minutes for this.
10 minute pose – Staedtler 0.5 pigment liner
10 minute pose
10 minute pose
10 minute pose
The three models. The pose started with just the two top models, and then the third one joined, and it was a 10 minute pose.
A challenging composition, 20 minute pose
10 minute pose. I like the composition on this one – I placed her on the side of the page to give her room for thought.
Final pose, 20 minutes

One thought on “Weekly Update: Model Sketches Take 2”

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    graysummers

    Great news that you are doing the 100 sketches again. Look forward to seeing your results. Always a joy and very interesting in the way you view the people you draw. In this write up here? And also that you use camera film too. Didn’t know that you used a film camera. I use the Pentax LX SLR with black and white film only. So if you do upload captured results in the future, that would be really interesting. Vintage format is such a great medium to work in.

    And to see the qualities you captured in getting results from only 10 minute sessions with most of the model drawings is very cool. Very impressive. Well done for persevering with the crowded situation. All the best.

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