Mitch, that Shifty Kid.

A few days after Thanksgiving, the 28th, beautiful Marie modeled.

And then on Dec 5th, briefly home between two trips to Los Angeles, I drew the sexy Merav.

It’s been a busy November. But I have done some figure drawing, and I should post some of those images.

On Halloween, lovely hipster pin-up Madelyne modeled.

Then, November 14th brought the lithe Sonia to model.

Then on November 27th, I visited a long-pose drawing session, again attended by the graceful Sonia.

Monday, October 17th, Emily again appeared on the stage. And I am officially rusty. I couldn’t get a decent portrait. But we did listen to Radiohead at the end of the evening. Also improv was discussed.

Hey, it’s been a while, how about I post some drawings that I’ve done?

On Monday, September 19, 2011, The beautiful Emily returned to model. And I’m sure there was much fun to be had, but I’m sorry I just remember what the conversations may have revolved around. We did listen to Radiohead’s latest at the end.

Next week, September 26, 2011 — new face Alex modeled.  Alex had a great very photogenic (drawogenic?) masculine face and form, lots of great lines.

And this most recent Monday, October 10, 2011 we had a great visit from Titine.

And I like this simple cartoony portrait of Titine.

And look! It’s me! Easily one of my favorite people in the world, I am hard-working and friendly. I mean, friendly. I’m the kind of pal you could really split a high-speed internet bill with, because I am just so damn friendly.

Appearing in the June 17th edition, my employer ran another of my illustrations. Again, the concept that I was given didn’t particularly line-up with the story as actually written. I did really enjoy drawing a gold tooth in the vein of Henry VIII.

Monday, July 11th, brought recent model auditioneer Titine to the studio. The gamine lass brought some great poses, and a collection of eclectic music. Including the inaccessible Meredith Monk.

Wednesday, July 6, the sexy Merav returned to the stage to kick-off the Fall session of drawing at the 23rd Street Studio. And I think that final ball-point portrait has got to be in the top five portraits that I’ve done of Merav.

Bonus images!

Here’s a cartoony drawing in gel ink

And here’s that portrait with some quick (and complimentary) photoshop colors.

On Saturday, June 11, I went into the wilds of SoMa to draw at the Sunny Somarts building and the regal Wendell modeled. Wendell has a very action-oriented lanky strength and really was giving some excellent dynamic poses. I also did virtually all my drawings in in ink, doing the gestures with a two-headed marker, longer poses with gel-pen and colored-pencil for shading, brush marker to fill-in blacks. Then the portrait in ballpoint.

On Monday, June 3rd. Michael hosted a eager group of model auditioning for regular spots at the studio. It was a very fun and loose session. Although my drawings were a little weak, which I’m blaming on both the low number of gestures we got with each model (like two or three) and the constant rotation of said models. But like I mentioned it was fast-paced and a lot of fun, and all nine models seemed to have something about them.

Depicted in the featured drawing is the adorable Helena. The marker gesture sketch and semi-portrait and seated sketch is the coltish and quirky Tientee (who’s name I am no doubt butchering). And the final gel-ink and color-pencil sketch is of the sophisticated Constance.

On Monday, May 23rd, again we had a visit from the effervescent Emily. Again, Radiohead was played, and quirky documentaries were discussed.

I also told everyone about this dream that I had that morning. Where I was being considered for the director of the Tommy Boy sequel, and I was talking with BATS Impov king, Kasey Klemm to play the Chris Farley part. And I was going over my application for the job, and I looked at a page of boxes, each labeled with an emotion, and judging all of the little faces that I drew in the box to illustrate that emotion. That’s when the ‘fourth wall’ got a little wobbly.

Monday, May 16th had the return of Sonia to the stage. Sonia had a brought an nice victory into the session, having just had a successful improv audition at Pan Theater, and she gave off a very nice energy, making her usual solid and elegant poses that much more magnetic.

On May 9th, the beautiful and ebullient Emily modeled. And of course, Radiohead was involved.

On Monday, May 2nd, Isak, on a brief respite from transcontinental travels modeled. And I generally failed to get too much of his inventive poses and well-defined form onto the page.

April 18th, bookish beauty Signe came to model. And boy I couldn’t draw. I was trying a new material, these nifty brush markers. which I think have potential, if I can figure out how to use them.