Urban Sketchers Swindon

Saturday, 5th January - Our first meeting of 2019 with only a few of us turning up at the Brunel Shopping Centre.  Myself and a friend opted for a hot drink and a seat in the cafe in centre of the ground floor, with a view of a toy shop window.  I did more chatting than sketching and chose this simple soft toy study.  Then, after giving up on trying to capture the constant flow of shoppers, we made an effort to sketch each other.

The Snowman - pen, Inktense pencils and white gel pen

Maija - pencil

Life Drawing

My local art society held a 2 hour life drawing workshop this weekend.  The first half was with the model clothed, the second half unclothed.  Despite quite a short time span, those attending managed to produce quite a few very good sketches.  It's definitely something I could do with more practice at.

We started off each session with a couple of 5 minute warm-ups, followed by two longer poses of 20/25 minutes.

Three of my 5 minute warm-ups:

Charcoal pencil

Charcoal pencil

Conte pencil

A couple of the longer poses:

Charcoal and pastel pencil

Charcoal and pastel pencil over
acrylic sponged background