Starving "working" Artist

Not too sure who this blog is for, my fellow artists that are curious about my progress perhaps, but more for myself, in an attempt to get myself to become a successful artist. Who knows, only time will tell.

And now for the nitty gritty. On my day off today I got the chance to drop in at a figure drawing workshop, at 23rd. St, here in San Francisco. It felt great to draw from a live model again, it's been about two years since the last time I got to work with one. The one here on the right, I did with an ink brush pen. It was a 7 minute pose, which is weird, I've never done a 7 minute pose drawing before. Looking at it now the breasts are too small and not angled correctly. So those of you critiquing (which, is one of the main reasons for doing this blog) beat you to it suckas! Although, I do like the hips.

The sketch on the right I also did with an ink brush pen. I enjoyed this pose a lot, I like the energy from this

drawing but the head is off and too boxy, but man am I loving my brush pen.(7 min pose)

This next sketch here is one of my favorites. I feel as though I really caught the movement of the pose. This was mostly done with the brush pen, which I was just staring at to give you folks the name but it's all in Japanese! At the end of the drawing I used a little charcoal. The feet obviously need to be worked on.(7 min pose)

I know this next sketch may not be the best, but it is one I'm proud of, I've never been good at handling fore shorting poses and this is the best one I've done by far. That's enough of tooting

my own horn.............. for now. Done with charcoal and brush pen.(10 min pose)

Okay, this'll be the last sketch I'll put up for today, hope I haven't bored you folks too much. We had a twenty minute break before this pose and during so I was looking through my copy of Charles Bargue book and after being influenced this is the sketch that I created. This sketch I

started off different, I used a hard charcoal pencil and then went on top of it with my new favorite drawing tool.(20 min pose)

Thanks again, folks for taking the time to humor me and I hope to "hear" from you guys soon. Night.