Fast Poses with Babs and Lucy Bellwood! (NSFW) (Patreon)

My pal Babs has been doing online Zoom figure modeling for years now, and once in awhile they have special guest artists who bring their perspective and technique and advice to the crowd, which is refreshing when you usually just hear your own regular advice in your head while you draw! 

Last night's guest was my good friend Lucy Bellwood, whom I assume needs no introduction, but in case she does... 

Lucy's been inviting more play into her work lately, which is blissfully contagious for professionals who try to get it "right" every time they draw. Thus we started out with 2-minute poses focusing on the overall silhouette of our model, without lines.

I painted these on shit-ass printer paper to keep myself from getting too precious. I switched to marker (but kept the shit-ass paper) for the 5-minute poses:

(Hence the bleed-through of the yellow.)

I let the messy warm-ups inspire my final three studies, and used a Micron 01 to outline some little paintings on one sheet of my favorite paper (Blick hot press) for the 10-minute poses:

(Still utilizing Jared's lesson about cool centers and warmer extremities in these, too!)

I think I mentioned last week that Babs and I are doing a figure drawing workshop at SPX next weekend, but I failed to realize how quickly it would fill up!! It's out of space; apologies if you wanted to sign up and didn't get a chance! 

Once things settle down for me a bit, maybe I can host something similar here :)