A four hour life drawing session this weekend yielded a couple of pictures as I try to catch up on a lost week. The pose was the same for the full four hours – major respect to the model who managed to recreate the pose exactly after each break.

First up, a normal charcoal on sugar-paper study

Drawing twenty-two : Life study

Then I decided to pick up the rock sanguine and also switch perspectives. Used pastel paper as well here.

Drawing twenty-three : Study in Sanguine

I liked the effect on the musculature, but the face is terrible – I think I have her eyes way too high up which makes the whole image kind of creepy….