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.

 

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Crisp air and falling leaves.

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.

 

 

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Reassuring Radiohead rituals.

  

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.

 

 

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Reviewing the figures.

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.

 

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Oh, so trustworthy.

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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.

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Shining teeth of divine right.

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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.

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Wailing a cappella.

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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.

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Lines in both directions.

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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!

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Here’s a cartoony drawing in gel ink

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

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Permanent record.

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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.

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Next!

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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.

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As if in a dream.

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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.

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Making it all up.

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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.

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No surprises.

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

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A long lay-over.

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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.

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Gray in the shade.

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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.

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