Figure Drawing and the Three-Hour Tour (NSFW) (Patreon)

Our model - our hero - drove for three hours to get to our session tonight! A major road in nearby Harper's Ferry is closed for the next three months, so there's a huge detour everyone is taking, and on top of that there was an accident, all while driving in rush hour traffic.

ALL JUST FOR US. And for you. All hail our model!

Straight to business, though: here's our five-minute warmups.

We invited her to do a lounging pose for the final (long) pose, to make up for her long trek, and she gladly accepted. So I got a nice challenging three-quarter-view foreshortened face as a lil treat.

I was super distracted tonight, and had a hard time picking out simple shapes in this pose, even though I recognized there were plenty of them. I had lofty expectations that I would exaggerate this one into abstraction, but I think the chill of autumn is already getting to me, and decided I just wanted the figure drawing equivalent of comfort food. (Appropriately, I'd made a chicken and mushroom soup from scratch just before class.) So I just drew her my usual way; simply, realistically, but with weird colors.

I did remember to leave a lot of the white of the page in this one, so I felt great about that! Here are some closeups, since I was too distracted to take in-progress photos.

It wouldn't feel right to ask her to make the long trek again in the future, so this might be the last time we draw our most frequently-drawn model for awhile! There's talk of inviting a few old familiar faces back, though, so maybe you'll catch a nice variety of bodies and faces in the coming weeks and months. :)