Sketch Session

I visited my old school, FIT, to attend a sketching/drawing salon held every Sunday night by a professor with whom I'm acquainted. It's an interesting setup compared to the erotic drawing salons I'd participated in in the past (where I met most of the artists in tonight's group). They have two models, a draped female fashion model and a male physique model, and they often pose at the same time but not in tandem, so you chose who you wanted to draw. After this week's Stavrinos inspiration, I wanted to sketch fashion again, even if I don't really know what my style is nowadays. Well, interestingly enough, a new one spontaneously emerged, more fluid and sketchier than I've ever had before. I did quite a few sketches tonight, and I even did some watercolors, which I haven't touched in aaaaages! I kept most save for two, as I gave each model one of themselves.



The female model Tabitha was amazing: she had such a perfect body for fashion, Steven, the professor, was saying she looked like a living croquis... and she certainly did! And on top of that she was ultra sweet, so even if i didn't want to part with any of my drawings of her, I gave her the portrait I did of her face, keeping all the fashion sketches. It was just too easy to draw fashion proportions on her, and I surprised myself by applying my normally sketchy colored pencil style to a fashion illustration proportion, but maintaining the long, lean quality of the limps and positioning. I normally try to clean everything up but for some reason it felt right to just leave everything really sketchy, which I don't think I've ever done before. This might be my real fashion illustration style!


Meanwhile, the guy, Pablo, was equally amazing, with a long lean body and completely defined muscles, but in a way that was still very fluid. He has the kind of body I wish I had (whether as me, or on me... I'm not picky! ;) )


None of these drawings are amazing pieces of art, but they were definitely fun practice, which I've been yearning for for a while. Plus, none of poses were particularly long - the fashion croquis were 5 minutes, so I was working fairly fast. The last time I went to this session I wasn't too pleased with the models nor my work, but hopefully this will spur me to go back and develop these skills which have atrophied for so long...