10/11/14_More Costumed Life Drawing

Last night was another fun night at the DIS Costumed Life Drawing session.
The models Adrianna and Joe were cool, dressed in punk-style black leather, and they both had those wild white contact lenses. I would love to do some long-pose portraits.

5 minute drawings.
Conte 1710 B and 2B pencils on newsprint, 18x20"

As it was, I got in a few good figure poses. Joe had a wonderful platinum-blonde mohawk, that lit up like fire when backlit by the studio lights. It would look super-awesome in paint. I was unfortunately situtated, so that if I looked up, I was staring straight into the studio light. But there were two models, so I always had a good choice to draw.

10 and 20 minute drawings.
Conte 1710 B and 2B pencils on newsprint, 18x20"

Again, I was working with Conte 1710 B and 2B pencils on newsprint, the pencils were sharpened to a long, slender taper.

10 and 20 minute drawings.
Conte 1710 B and 2B pencils on newsprint, 18x20"

I tried to get the gesture and proportions first, and then pick up any areas of interest I could while time allowed.

The final 10-minute pose together.
Conte 1710 B and 2B pencils on newsprint, 18x20"

Jeremy split the poses up nicely: one model would do a 20-minute pose, and the other would do shorter poses - 5, 10, 1nd 5 minutes. Then they would switch. That way, there were constantly plenty of good choices.
The models' costumes were cool. The combination of shoes, boots, leather, hoods, hair, and masks meant that there was always something interesting going on. Adrianna did cool gestures with her hands and feet. At one point, she had super-high heels; when combined with her feet gestures, her silhouette would make very interesting shapes.
At various points, the two models were wearing masks: a black bunny mask, and a bird-like mask. This made for very interesting visuals.
I got as much as I could, used a combination of envelope shapes, gesture, and negative shapes; and tried to remain focused on the big shapes first - but it wasn't always easy. ;)