Bar Sketches

These are from MICA’s Tuesday life drawing session.  You can tell I was bored out of my mind by the third sketch.  For some reason someone had run off with all the chairs in the studio space, leaving the artists nothing but high metal “bar stools” to sit on.  Pretty uncomfortable.  One guy must have gotten up and moved twenty times during the session in an attempt to get comfortable.

Went to Baltimore’s Charcoal Club for the first time last night….very nice comfortable space, a fridge full of beer for a dollar, and a lot of friendly people.

Mondays are their “one long pose” nights……I did the first three sketches from the same position, trying to do a different take and a different style for each one.  They all look like the model, but none of them look similar to eachother.  I sort of saw them as, well, if you stuck a different personality three times into the same body, what each personality’s self-image might look like. 

Keep in mind I was drinking beer.

(Yeah, went a little crazy on the stomach with that one.)

For this last one I got up and moved over a few feet….once I sat down, I realized I hadn’t moved anywhere far enough, but was too lazy to get up.  (Going any further would have meant disturbing other folks anyway.)

I have MICA’s life-drawing class tonight, so I’ll probably have some more work to throw up on Thursday.

Well, Dr. Sketchy’s first session is done, so I have more time to do stuff here….at least for a few weeks.  (I’ll probably do a post about the first session at the Dr. Sketchy blog shortly.)

I attended the first class of MICA’s life drawing session this season on Tuesday and here’s the four “eh, eh, good, eh” drawings from that.  I purposefully drew the same model in the same pose all four times, playing around with the proportions and face with each one.  By the fourth my mind was numb with boredom….probably won’t do that next time.

I try very hard to keep most of these posts to be sketches (with the occasional promotional stuff for Dr. Sketchy’s), but I thought this piece on Sargent over at Lines and Colors was very well said.

And yes, I know this blog is slacking a little bit…after Sunday (and maybe a little before) stuff should start showing up again.