She looked so angry

Life Drawing, Croquis from ArtMagenta
Today's angry model is Marylin and she is a shop keeper from Malmö

She did not have a waist

Figure drawing, Croquis from ArtMagenta.com
Today's model is Monica
and she is an artist from Helsingborg

A simple but difficult pose for the model

Difficult pose. Figure Drawing from ArtMagenta.com
You cannot ask a croquis model to take a posture standing on her toes for more than about 2 minutes. More than 2 minutes must be considered as torture for the croquis model. This sketch is a 2 minutes croquis with some after adjustments.

Mostly you let the croquis model decide which postures she will have but you give a time duration. If that time is more than 2 minutes, the croquis model will take a relaxed posture and if you say 6 minutes or more, then the croquis model takes a lying posture. That's OK. You need to have those croquis exercises, but you also must have postures with "action". 

Tell the croquis model to have one minute (or 2 minutes) postures and imaging being an athlet and you will get a series of  some good balance exercises for your croquis session.

Caught in flight

Croquis in flight is a gesture drawing by Artmagenta

Cartoon croquis

Cartoon croquis is a figure drawing by Artmagenta
Todays model was Sonja, She is a teacher from Bjuv








Sonjas long neck and thick thighs just were made for a cartoon. So here it is.
- Sorry Sonja.

But she laughed and still looked happy when she saw it...

An intensive croquis session


A glas of milk to strengthen the skeleton

An intensive croquis session with a milk drinking model. It was all about very short poses, 30 seconds, 1 minute and to slow down with a few 2 minutes. Instructive but no resulting sketches to save for posterity. Anyway here are some 2 minutes sketches.


No time for drawing chairs. It's all about
body propotions and position
Beautiful position (and qick to draw)

The basketball player from Nässjö

The basketball player from Nässjö is a figure drawing by Artmagenta
Today the model is Ingrid and she is a basketball player from Nässjö