I was quite intimidated to join today's group. While it's an open meetup group and anyone can go, I thought for sure they'd look at my stuff and tell me that I need to take some more art classes before I come back... Luckily, that didn't happen.
We started out a little late, so I'm guessing the short poses were cut short. That said, they started with several 1-minute poses...
I started out with my soft pastels, just trying to see the lines and forms. What shapes are there?... I think a couple of them flow quite nicely, and this may be a good way to get my drawings started. Then I switched to charcoal pencils so that I could start drawing in specific body parts and more shadows.
The colors here are rubbed off from from adjacent pages. I went ahead and used adjacent pages for the short poses, the "warm up."
Then they went to 3-minute poses.
Then, there was an hour-long pose. I did my best to work as long as I could, which was only 1/2 hour, but you have to build up to the long poses, and I'm just not ready yet...
My finished long pose painting. I think I need to work on the boobs, much flatter looking in the painting than in real life. But not bad overall, considering I haven't done any life drawing for years.
And no one told me to take more classes. They were very nice and inviting. A couple of people came and had a look during the breaks, but no one said anything, good or bad. I did talk with one other person there; we traded information about favorite stores for art supplies. I need to check out the Co-op! Anyway, she was really nice, and had only good things to say about the group: very inviting, everyone's there to practice, so everything's okay... And at the end, I did not feel like an outsider, nor an unwanted-beginner. It was very welcoming. Definitely a group that I would visit again, given the time off!
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