Here are the sketches I did at the Silaw Artists Collective life drawing session earlier in November. I arrived a bit late for the first post but otherwise the model held the poses for about 15-25 minutes each. The first was the most rushed, but it’s the one I ended up being most satisfied with!
Thu-6-Nov-2025
Here is the last batch of sketches I did at the #PensNBrushes life drawing session on 3 May, of the two models together. Both of these took about 15 minutes. As before I used water soluble ink in an old #Rotring pen and added watercolour washes.
Sat-3-May-2025
Here are some more of the sketches I did at the @PensNBrushesArt life drawing session on 3 May. These are the ones of the male model. I found it difficult to draw him because he wasn’t great at staying still and because of the added accessories (hat, fishing net and water gourds), which I find a bit distracting. Even so the last sketch in this batch (done in 20 minutes) was the one I was most satisfied with over the whole session.
Sat-3-May-2025
Here are some of the sketches I did at the #PensNBrushes life drawing session on 3 May. As usual we started with quick poses of 2 minutes and then had a few of 5 and 10 minutes each. These are the ones of the female model. Unfortunately I didn’t bring my watercolour pencils to this session, so instead I used my ancient #Rotring ArtPen with water soluble ink, then added some watercolour washes. As is often the case I was most satisfied with the sketches that I took the least time on!
Sat-3-May-2025
Here are the sketches I did at the @KyusiSundaySketchers #LifeDrawing session. The pace of drawing was a bit more relaxed that in other life drawing sessions I have attended – we had 10 and 15 minutes for each pose. I used my #Derwent #WatercolourPencils for the line-work and then added some watercolour washes.
We also had a challenge to do a non-dominant hand sketch and mine (the third one in this post) was one of the two that was picked out by the models – so I get a 50% discount on the next session!
Sun-27-Apr-2025
Here are the last two sketches I did at the #PensNBrushes life drawing session on 15 March. I think we had about 15-20 minutes for each of these poses and as before I started with #Derwent #WatercolourPencils, then added some watercolour washes and a bit of ink.
Sat-15-Mar-2025
This is the second batch of sketches I did at the #PensNBrushes life drawing session on 15 March. I was more satisfied with these and I thought the model held the poses better, compared to the male model. I used #Derwent #WatercolourPencils and some ink. As before we started with 2 minute poses and worked our way up to 20 minutes for the last one. I have struggled with the #Strathmore (ready cut 500 series hot press) paper I am using – getting some unwanted ‘blooms’ which I don’t expect from such expensive paper.
Sat-15-Mar-2025
After what feels like a long gap, I joined #PensNBrushes for a life drawing class on 15 March (the last session I joined was in June 2024 (see post No.89-2742-43). Here are the sketches I did of the first (male) model – I can’t say I was really satisfied with any of these. I started with a #Derwent water soluble graphite pencil (which promptly broke when I was doing my first sketch), then switched to using #WatercolourPencils and some ink. I’ve noted on each drawing how much time we had – but we started with 2 minute poses and worked our way up to 20 minutes for the last one.
Sat-15-Mar-2025
Here are the sketches I did with the #SilawArtistCollective at the end of February. This session was in memory of Arnel Borja (a fellow artist), who sadly passed away in January. The models name was Milen Garcia and the event took place at Kapitolyo Art Space in Pasig. Each pose was about 20 minutes with some time added – though for the third pose I managed two sketches from different angles and then later added some doodles of the artists at work.
I used #Derwent watercolour pencils to start off, then added ink and watercolour. I think I was happiest with the last one, though as usual I struggled to draw her hand!
Fri-28-Feb-2025