Three Studies of the Live Model (2005)

Charcoal on newsprint

We spent two and a half hours sketching this model in our drawing
class. The poses ranged from a series of five one-minute gesture
drawings to two twenty-five minute poses for detailed sketches.

I thought that these were three of the best, each of them either a
five or ten minute pose. In each I felt I captured the weight and
movement of the subject without getting bogged down in a lot of
detail. I sketched the two longer poses with 4B pencil on newsprint;
I was pleased with the execution but the result is not worth
reproducing since I think pencil looks terrible on newsprint.

I was amazed at how tense I became, trying to capture the essence
of a person's stance and bearing in under one minute. By the time
we had done ten or so my body was beginning to ache from unconsciously
twisting myself into the same poses as the model! After that, five
or ten minutes seemed like all the time in the world to put down the
essentials of what I saw.