: “In my last post at the end of January about the life-drawing aspect of my artistic practice I wrote about using the second of the two drawings as a starting point for February’s work, with a broad…”
: “I finished off the last day of January with a second session of life-drawing, following on from the session earlier this month. …”
A fragment of the first drawing from the session
: “I managed to get my first 2026 session of life-drawing done this past weekend. I was trying to find a particular style of pencil work that achieved the result I wanted, which I didn’t manage to do…”
Detail of one of the drawings from the recent life-drawing session
: “Yesterday I did my first life-drawing session since March this year. …”
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! …”
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…”
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. …”
: “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…”
: “On Friday and Saturday I finally restarted the life-drawing thread of my artistic practice after a break since November. …”
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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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. …”
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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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…”
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. …”
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, 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, 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, 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 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. …”
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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