Life Drawing Gage Academy

Today was the second session at Gage Academy life drawing for the month of August. The drawing went really well and this time I got there early so I could warmup. Unfortunately I was an hour and a half early.

The good news is that I was so early that I could make up for lost time yesterday. So I took a seat in front of a skeleton and began drawing in ink.

Life Drawing Gage Academy, skeleton setup — Skeleton setup

Life Drawing Gage Academy, before life drawing skeleton — Before life drawing, skeleton

Life Drawing Gage Academy, Seattle view — Nice view of Seattle

I still had more time so I drew the view from the Gage third floor window.

Life Drawing Gage Academy, looking out of gage window — Looking out of Gage window

Life Drawing Gage Academy, warmup — Warmup

Life Drawing Gage Academy, 20 minute pose — 20 minute pose

Two poses in the same place and the second one is always better. Maybe I should do a bunch of drawings all from the same view next time and see how much I learn from it.

The second one from this view is drawn much better, at least the face is, but I didn’t get as far. I just now realized while looking at the picture of this drawing that her arm is much too short. Funny how the realization comes much later…

Session Details

Session: 1290
Work: 1116
Width: 18
Height: 24
Medium: Charcoa, Ink
Art Time: 4 hrs

Charcoal, Figure, Ink

Chris Beaven

I'm an artist on a mission to do at least 30 minutes of art every single day for the rest of my life and track that progress on my website for all to see. I'm past the 10 year mark and I'm still going strong. Now it's time to give back and help other artists create a life long habit of creating.