Every serious student of art at some point takes a life drawing course in college. After college was done I missed life drawing; the opportunity to fine tune my skills from a real live figure, to improve my speed and style with gestures, the fun of being with other artists in the studio. Thankfully in 2009 I was lucky enough to find something similar at a life drawing meetup in Austin. Later I would join life drawing groups in Nashville and Denver.
This pastel drawing was done at a wonderful life drawing group in Nashville, Channel to Channel https://www.channeltochannel.com/. I started with a quick gesture and in about 20 minutes this developed into a completed drawing. This particular model was one of my all time favorites; easy to draw, great poses, good at holding a pose. I got a lot of my best drawings from her poses!
