First Figure Drawing of the New Year! (nsfw) (Patreon)

We managed to start the year with a session on the very first Wednesday! 

Now that I'm consistently working in watercolor, we're continuing the five-minute warmups followed by one long pose. I dunno if I'll ever want to go back to short poses, I love this format so much. 

(Until someone invites me to one of those fast-paced animator-targeted sessions with the 10- and 30-second poses *smacks lips like a gesture-drawing freak*)

Five minute poses!

And some quicker pencil sketches of the final pose:

I couldn't figure out what direction I wanted to go with this one, but I wanted it to be different than my usual approaches (NEW YEAR NEW ME, BABY), so instead I decided to just fill the whole paper end-to-end with her body.

Kinda forgot about that one entire hand and thigh, there! I got some shapes in last-minute for the final piece:

For last-minute, I think that previously-empty hand came out kinda nice! The Inktense colors are really pulling through in those rich shapes you see - the paler, more subtle colors are from my very grown-up Prang watercolor set that I use as a default kit.

Oh, and I'm using this delicious skinny brush pen for my lines, here. 

One last close-up, because I was happy the little rainbow of colors that showed up here:

Fingers crossed we'll get back on this weekly figure drawing horse for good from here out!