She did not have a waist

Today's model is Monica
and she is an artist from Helsingborg

A simple but difficult pose for the model

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

Cartoon croquis

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

Today the model is Ingrid and she is a basketball player from Nässjö

Getting dry in the sun

Almost like the cormorant is drying its wings, Mona is drying her body and hair after a refreshing swim in the sea.



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