On the Tuesday I went over to the Great Hall and sat in on the once-monthly Keyhole Sessions drawing session. Lately they have been branching out from their usual fare into more character and costume-based evenings, which works for me. On this evening, the theme was worked around the Medusa narrative. B- from the Coquettes burlesque troupe was nominally channeling an Athena vibe in a sheer dress.
Drawing a person in draped fabric is a good challenge, though. These are two 1-minute studies at the top,, followed by a 5-minute, a 10-minute and a 15-minute study below. The first four are on 1x x 24" sheets of bond paper, and the lowest one is on 18 x 24" cartridge paper. all are done with U-Art hard compressed charcoal. The softer bond paper is lower-quality, but imparts a finer grain with the charcoal then the cartridge I've been using does. (Sigh.)
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