This week I seem to have made a bit of a breakthrough in my quick 1-2 minute gesture drawings. For about half an hour at the start of the session, the model holds a series of poses for short periods of time. Here is a sample of these quick sketches.

I also continued to refine my long pose drawing. This week I revisited the outline and worked on the shadow shapes and tones.

Tonight was totally focused on refining the shadow shapes and understanding the quality of the shadow edge of cast shadows and form shadows. The former being a harder edge with the later being softer depending the form.

This week I completed the outline and started on the shadow shapes and tones.

This week we have a new life model and a new pose Once again we start with the outline and establishing the proportions.