Zoe

At last Tuesday's session at The Sussex County Arts Club our model was Zoe. I've drawn her a few times before and she's really good to draw. I was tempted to continue my attempts to draw on my iPad but as I have an exhibition coming up in the new year I thought I'd better go analogue.

Jasmine and Michaela

I had one private session with Jasmine and a SCAC session with Michaela a couple of weeks back but because of the pressure of Christmas deadlines I've only just got around to scanning and posting these and I've had another session since these which I need to scan in too. It's all too much! Can I have 8 more hours in the day please Time Lords?

Lichtenstein themed session

Last Tuesday night Jake Spicer's Draw group held a Roy Lichtenstein inspired life drawing event at The Old Market in Brighton and Hove. As usual it was well attended and there were three tableaux design and built by Laura and three models in suitable pop art costume and make-up to pose in front of them. I seemed to spend most of the evening drawing the magnificent Laura Nenonen who was throwing some suitably cartoony shapes. Great fun! Next month the theme is Norse mythology so get yer helmets out gang!

Monster Festival

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Sophia

Tuesday night's session at The Sussex County Arts Club was pretty full as usual and our model was the excellent Sophia who could hold a pose like a statue. Other cartooning stalwarts in attendance were Geo Parkin and Phil Dobson. Here are my attempts at capturing the lean and  lissom Sophia.

Kate times 2

Over the last couple of nights I've had two drawing sessions with Kate Shields at the SCAC.

The first was Bill Donahoe's regular Tuesday night class where he plays great music to accompany the scribbling and last night was a special event organised by Kate (who has more fabulous curves that the Amalfi coast road) and her fellow fab modelling pals Frankie and Emma. The theme was the three muses linked by red twine in a varied three hour session accompanied again by a great soundtrack. There was a fabulously tranquil and inspiring atmosphere and it was good to see my old studio mate Dan Lish there for his first life drawing session in yonks. Thanks Kate for a great event.

Rucsy

While I've been out here in Mallorca I've got to know 3 Rumanian girls who are all beautiful, interesting and intelligent as well as speaking near perfect English. Maybe I should move there.
Anyway, this is Rucsy who agreed to model for me yesterday. As I hope you can tell she is very striking with a mass of blonde curls and is a very spiritual girl who wanted to be drawn holding a fairy.
So who was I to refuse? Fairy 'nuff! (Sorry!) She didn't want paying for our session so I'm giving her all the drawings instead. Who knows, one day they might be worth not very much at all!

Alma

My friend Daniel out here in Palma met a beautiful girl called Alma who had seen some of my life drawings (thanks to Dan) and wanted me to draw her to boost her self confidence after a bad love affair had messed her up. So a few days ago she borrowed a beautiful Spanish apartment and after a couple of glasses of wine to clam our nerves (Hey! I get nervous too!) we had a lovely relaxed drawing session. As well as being stunningly beautiful Alma does a lot of yoga and took to modelling very easily. I'd be begging her to be my regular muse if she hadn't gone back to northern Spain for a month. The Gods always have the last laugh! Here are the results.

Independence Day 2

In my regular spot in SFX magazine I am called upon to visualise films that are in development or even just being planned. That means that sometimes I have very little to go on beyond the title. Sometimes we don't know who will be starring in it, directing it or what it will be about. In the current issue of SFX the film in question is a sequel to the wonderful big budget B movie Independence Day and the only info they had was that Will Smith isn't going to be in it. Here's how it turned out. I had fun drawing the alien and all it's tentacles. FZZZZZZAP!!!

Jasmine and Michaela

This week on two consecutive nights I was lucky enough to draw two models who were new to me and they were both fabulous. On the Monday night at Kate Shields' private session in her lovely flat overlooking Brighton sea front our model was the truly beautiful Jasmine whom Kate had met at Glastonbury. A small group of artists attempted to capture her loveliness on paper.
On the following night at the SCAC session we had another new model Michaela who was also
fantastic to draw as I hope you'll see from my scribblings. I'm off back to Palma next week where I have yet to find a drawing session so it was great to draw these two wonderful models before I go.

Zoe

Zoe was our model on Tuesday night at Bill's life drawing session at the SCAC. She's slim and tanned and very goo

d to draw. That night she had a feather in her hair giving her a Native American Indian Squaw look which appealed to me greatly being a bit of a fan of all things Wild West.

2 Lauras

This week I drew 2 different Lauras on 2 consecutive nights.
On Monday at The Farm Tavern a small class of drawers (just me and the organiser) attempted to capture the fabulous Finn- Big Laura and on the Tuesday night at SCAC a full studio tried to capture the long limbed loveliness of Slim Laura.
Here are my best ones.

3 Models

I've managed to fit in three life drawings sessions since I got back from Majorca, two at SCAC on Tuesday nights and one on Sunday afternoon at Jake's studio in New England House. Here's a compilation of the best scribblings. The excellent models were Laura, Lucy and Chiara. I need to fit a few more in before returning to paradise island where I can find no classes. Alas!

Jake Spicer's Drawing Circus

The other night I went along to another of Jake Spicer's excellent drawing events.
This time it was in the main hall of The Old Market so there was plenty of room. The event started in the afternoon but I went along to the evening part which ran from 8 to 11. There were 6 model. 5 girls and one guy. They were painted white all over to give a kind of Pierrot effect and their poses were accompanied by an excellent group of musicians playing drifty, ambient music which leant to the relaxed vibe. very enjoyable. Here are my best ones.

Amy,Osami and Marie

One of the problems about doing a lot of life drawing and then posting up the best ones is they take ages to scan and tweak before they are ready for the eager eyeballs of one's adoring public. I've done quite a lot of drawing over the last few weeks to make up for the time's when I'm in Palma which is surprisingly free of drawing classes. So here is a compilation of three sessions with my friend and muses Marie and models Osami and Amy.

Naomi

I've managed to fit  in an awful lot of life drawing since I got back from Mallorca where classes are as rare as a Mensa member in Magaluf. One of which was a private session with the extremely lovely Naomi Vernon who I've known vaguely for years through The New Venture Theatre group. She'd never posed  for an artist before and seemed to enjoy it so I'm hoping we can repeat the experience soon. Thanks Naomi!

Laura the fabulous Finn

Last week on my return from Mallorca I managed to fit in a couple of drawing sessions with Laura the fabulous Finn. One was a private session at my flat with Alexa Garside and the other was at the regular Tuesday night SCAC class. Laura is terrific to draw as she's very tall (6'3"), looks fabulous and can hold a pose like a statue. On top of that she has a great personality. I confess to being slightly smitten.
Hey ho! Dream on!

Rosy, oh, Rosy!

After a couple of weeks in Palma where there seem to be no life drawing classes I returned to Brighton where they are everywhere. Last Monday night, round at Kate Shields' wonderful flat a small group of eager drawers were treated to a modelling session by renowned poet and Russia-o-phile Rosy Carrick.
Here are some of my attempts to capture her loveliness.

Star Trek picture puzzle

One of the magazines I work for on a regular basis - the excellent SFX, likes to give me difficult challenges from time to time and this is the latest. What they wanted was a spread to go in the superb Star Trek special (available now at your local newsagents or on line) showing visual references to as many episode titles from all Star Trek series as I could fit in. From a list of 100 I managed to squeeze in 87. You'd have to be a total Trekkie to get them all methinks. It was a really fun job and the sort of challenge I love. Hope you like it.

Greta

A packed to the gunnels life drawing class last night at The Sussex Arts Club were treated to the sinous modelling skills of Greta. There were some notable newcomers in the class including master designer Nigel Spall, reknowned cartoonist Phil Dobson and expert illustrator and generally fab chap Pete Greenwood, who were all enthused by the experience and keen to repeat it. Here are my best efforts at portraying Greta. And then I'm off to Palma for a few weeks where life drawing classes are as dragon's eggs.

Ariane Plumley

On Tuesday night at The Sussex Arts Club our model was the lovely Ariane who had a wonderfully defined torso as, hopefully, you'll see from my sketches below.

Emma Sandham-King

Monday night's new life drawing session in Kate Shields' fabulous flat in Embassy Court, Brighton was attended by 8 or so artists. Our model was the always wonderful Emma who has more curves than than road in San Fransisco er... the one that curves a lot.
Anyway, here are my best daubings from a great session.

Vicki

Tuesday night's life drawing session at SCAC was a bit quieter than usual as a small but cuddly band of stalwarts gathered to draw our model Vicki. I was feeling a bit dodgy after spending an evening with my mate Paul's brother Adrian who'd picked up something dodgy after falling into a canal in Holland.
Probably psychological but instead of repairing to the local hostilery for much quaffage I went home.
Here are my best Vickis.

Cleo Kate

Last night I returned to my regular Tuesday night life drawing class at The Sussex Arts Club after a break of a few weeks while I was in Hungary and then recovering. Our model was the fabulous Kate who has often been compared to Bettie Page although I think she's more Cleopatra. It was good to see

regular Rich and another returnee, the excellent cartoonist and all round good egg- Geo Parkin. After 2 hour of attempting to capture Kate's pulchritude we repaired to Mrs Fitzherberts for much nattering and quaffage. Ugh my head! here are my best scribblings.

Trip to Debrecen

I'm out here in Hungary to get me teeth fixed. It's about a third of the price it is in England and it needs doing so here I am. I arrived yesterday and after booking in to the rather quaint, wooden, funky hotel I went for a walkabout and here are the shots I took. Debrecen on a Saturday afternoon is pretty dead with no shops open and not many people about but the centre is quite pretty. The food here seems good. I had a great fish soup for lunch. So now I've got to calm my nerves before tomorrow's procedure. This is not aided by the fact that the dentist's name is Atilla. Presumably Atilla the Hungarian. Fingers crossed!

Priya

Last Tuesday night at The Sussex Arts Club off Bond Street in Brighton our model was the rather beautiful Priya. Here are my best ones.

Kate Shields and the Zig Zag Method

Last night's session at the Farm Tavern was hosted, as usual, by Rachel Mortimer and our model this week was the talented and magnificent Kate Shields now residing in one of the most desirable flats in the whole of Brighton and Hove City (lucky cat!). There were only 5 artists present so it was a small bijou gathering and a fun and informal time was had by all. Rachel got us to try a drawing technique called The Zig Zag Method whereby you map out the figure going from point to point using straight lines until a correct image builds up then you can go over it with thicker lines and Hey Presto!- a good drawing! This theory actually seemed to work and we were all chuffed with the results. Mine is below top left. Have fun kiddies!

Laura the Fabulous Finn

Last night's life drawing session at The Sussex Arts Club was a packed house and our model was the rather wonderful 6'2" Finnish beauty Laura. She turned out to be a lovely girl as well as an excellent model and every pose which she held superbly was a delight to draw. As you can tell, I was very impressed, as were we all.
Here are my best efforts and I hope I get the chance to draw her again very soon.

More Emmas

Monday night's session at The Farm Tavern was co-hosted by Rachel Mortimer and the brilliant caricaturist Manon Delacroix. The latter was there to talk about drawing heads and figures by breaking them down into cubes. The former as an experiment got the 8 artists to draw Emma for one minute then pass the paper to the left and draw over the paper that they were passed for another minute and so on until you got back your original piece of paper. The results were very interesting and strangely varied.
here are my best normal sketches from an enjoyable session.

The Mighty Dave!

Last night I battled through the howling wind and rain with two colleagues, Nadia Gunning and her sister Rowy to attend the life drawing session at the Farm Tavern pub here in Brighton. Nadia and Rowy hadn't been to the class before and professed to be total beginners although their drawings impressed everyone and certainly didn't look like the work of beginners.
The session is hosted by the wonderful Rachel Mortimer who will give tuition if required and makes us do interesting and difficult things like drawing with the wrong hand and drawing without looking at the paper!

Our model was the fabulously sinewy Dave (I think! Apologies if I've got his name wrong.) who struck a series of dramatic, heroic poses and held them like a statue. My best efforts are below. A very enjoyable session and I hope the two "beginners" come again.

2 drawing sessions

This week I went to two different life drawing sessions here in Brighton where we're spoilt for choice.
The Monday night class upstairs at the Farm Tavern pub is my new regular spot as the girl who runs it Rachel Mortimer makes  us do interesting exercises like drawing with your wrong hand or drawing with a continuous line. My best attempts at drawing the fabulous Chiara are below.
Then on Tuesday night I went to Bill Donohoe's class at The Sussex Arts Club which is still my favourite. The model was a lovely young University student called Lottie whom I hadn't drawn before. She was excellent and my scribblings are below.

Sarah Jane! and more Emma

Yesterday afternoon as the snow festooned the town, the fabulous Alexa Garside and I had a private drawing session with the stunningly beautiful Sarah Jane Gay. She reminds me of a young Kirsten Scott Thomas whose etherial

presence has graced many a film like The English Patient. SJ has just returned from 3 months in Madrid where she became much more fluent in Spanish than I'll ever be. Below are my best efforts and below them are drawings form the new (to me) life drawing session at the Farm Tavern on a Monday night where I drew the always excellent model Emma Sandham-King in the company of some talented and interesting gals including the frighteningly talented Manon Delacroix.

Emma

I went along to Kate Shields' monthly life drawing session from 6.30 til 8 at the lovely, funky Marwood Cafe off Ship Street in Brighton last night. Our model was Emma who is always a joy to draw. Some nights you're hot and some night's you're not as someone once said but I was in the flow last night so here are most of my drawings.

Otto

Last night's model at Jake's Sunday session was Otto who bears a striking resemblance to the late actor pete Postlethwaite. Interesting chap to draw. I'd forgotten to take my favourite brush pen so I bought some charcoal and had a go with that. My good pal Alexa was there as was her good pal Pearl Bates who is also a very talented artist. So I was esteemed company.

Here are the best of my smearings.