15 Minute Drawings at the USAA - The Girl with the Elephant Tattoo

More life drawings from what felt like 100 feet away from the model (it was more like 15-20). Plus the light was on the other side of the room so all I got was 100% shadow. Overall a crappy experience. *sigh* Good thing the people there are nice. :)

15 Minute Drawings at the USAA - Catherine

15 Minute Drawings at the USAA - Drea

15 Minute Drawings at the USAA

After doing conte for many months, my recent return to china marker is feeling really good. I really miss that gliding, smooth feeling! I think I'm looser too. The conte stiffens me up. I don't know why! Crazy mental block.

15 Minute Drawings at the USAA, Jorge

Great model today. Jorge has excellent definition which makes him fun to draw.

Finally getting used to china marker again. I noticed that when I switched to Conte, i became very very stiff because it's harder to "skate the page". The past few weeks I've been stiff with the china markers too. I re-read some Walt Stanchfield and that Force book by Mike Mattesi to help re-focus.

Keeping a blog has been really helpful for me. You can quickly review what you need to work on and try to fix it.

Tiffanny