Gaby by Sue Pownall
Gaby, Charcoal A3© Sue Pownall 2013
Whilst in the UK I went to 2 more life drawing classes. As with drawing Terry I took charcoal to draw with as I'd had such fun before. In the 2nd class, I also tried using watercolours directly without under-drawing. I think as a side-effect of drawing portaits for my Festival Faces series, with both models I ended up drawing portraits during the long poses. Gaby was so pleased with my drawing of her that she took a photo of it. Below are other drawings of Gaby.
The day before I left UK, I got to draw Rachel and her tattoos again. I drew her before in September 2011 and you can see those drawings here. With the first long pose I drew the charcoal portrait below, which I think is a fair likeness. Then did the rough full body drawing. Can you tell I was pre-occupied with what I had to do before my flight the next morning?
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Rachel Charcoal A3 © Sue Pownall 2013
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Rachel in charcoal
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Portrait in sepia pencil on A3
Finally,  I drew another portrait of Rachel as a concerted effort to focus and relax.

 


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Leslie Parker
10/02/2013 09:00

I love the sketches of Rachel. I find tattoos on models extremely difficult to draw without looking cartoonish. You accomplished it quite smoothly. Keep drawing and blogging.

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Sue
13/02/2013 08:21

Thank you Leslie.

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