Life-drawing August 2025
Detail of one of the drawings from the recent life-drawing session
: “Yesterday I did my first life-drawing session since March this year. …”
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Life Model Rates 2025
Life-drawing 1 March 2024, by the author. Sanguine Pencil on Hahnemühle Nostalgie paper.
: “I haven’t re-evaluated the rates I pay to the life models I work with since 2018, so I decided that it’s about time I did! …”
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Michelangelo, David, marble, 1501–04 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence)
: “This post is a follow-up to my post from last year September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? and I draw upon a lot of the concepts I laid out there. It’s a little longer and rantier than I…”
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Life-drawings from Monday and today (by the author)
: “I’ve taken this week off as annual leave from my day-job, to both get some artwork done and to make sure I use up my annual leave before I lose it. …”
Life-Drawing, February 2024
: “In my post last month about life-drawing I mentioned that the amount of oil used in the Faber-Castell Pitt sanguine pencil meant that I couldn’t get the tonal variation from it that I could from…”
Life-drawing, January 2024
: “On Friday and Saturday I finally restarted the life-drawing thread of my artistic practice after a break since November. …”
September life-drawing: not safe for whose work?
Three life-drawings from last weekend. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I managed to fit in a life-drawing session this past weekend, three drawings from it are displayed above. …”
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Artwork from the previous month
Detail from one of my test photographs taken on Friday 28th July
: “July was starting to look very sparse of any artwork until, I’m happy to report, the final weekend. …”
The drawing is not the model: gender identity in life-drawing
Life-drawing from November 2022, pastel on black paper. Model’s pronouns: they/them.
: “I’ve been talking to my regular life-models about gender, particularly with the models who use they/them pronouns (who may be non-binary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or something else) and whether the…”
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May 2023 life-drawing
Three of May’s life-drawings
: “Following on from April’s blog post on my life-drawing practice, I wanted to give a quick overview on what’s been happening in May (even though it’s not over yet, and I hope to get even more…”
April 2023 life-drawing
Details from two of April’s life-drawings
: “I did two sessions of life-drawing this month, trying to find the media and style that I want to employ, and I think I’m nearly there. …”
Artwork for all
One of the Life Drawings available from a drawing session in March 2023
: “I’ve decided to make three of my recent life-drawings, including the one illustrating this blog post, available to buy - you can find them on the new “Original Drawings” section of my online…”
Life-Drawing March 2023
Life-drawing, 30 minute pose
: “I took the day off from my day job on Monday — part of my plan to make sure I use all my annual leave allowance before I lose any untaken leave at the end of April — and booked myself a three-hour…”
Life-Drawing October 2022
Life-drawing, 30 minute pose
: “I have been inconsistent with my choice of medium in recent life-drawing practice - alternating between pencils and pastels. I don’t see this as inherently negative, but it does suggest to me that…”
Life-Drawing September 2022
Life-drawing, 1 hour pose (pencil)
: “My plan to re-introduce regular life-drawing into my artistic practice is still going ahead, even though it’s not as frequent as I’d hoped yet. Some of that is the logistics of finding and booking…”
A Study for The Goblin Market
A pencil study for The Goblin Market by the author
: “For a couple of years I’ve had an idea at the back of my mind to do a drawing based on Christina Rossetti’s 1859 poem Goblin Market as part of my Acid Renaissance series. …”
First three studies from the Court of Queen Mab
Three Studies from the Court of Queen Mab
: “I wrote about the first drawing in this series-inside-a-series back in early August, and I wrote about some of the props and references later that month. Since then I’ve finished the second and…”
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More on the Court of Queen Mab
: “A couple of weeks ago in my last blogpost I wrote about my plan to make a number of Studies from the Court of Queen Mab, which will form an arc or mini-series as part of my Acid Renaissance series,…”
The Court of Queen Mab
Detail from Study of a Figure in the Court of Queen Mab (1)
: “My original plan was a very large scale, multi-figure, drawing of the Court of Queen Mab, but I simply don’t have the room - I’d need a large studio space to attempt something like that. So…”
Life-drawing during Covid: some thoughts
Life drawing by the author
: “I’ve been trying to figure out the legality (and ethical conundrums) of restarting my life-drawing practice under the revised “3 Tier” system that is due to come into force in England on…”
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