Figure Drawing

It's been a while since I put any of these up. I've gotten into a routine where I go to figure drawing sessions about three times a week at various places downtown. Here are some examples from the past month:

First, the short poses (most 2-10 minutes, the darkest is a 15 minute pose):



Everything's done with charcoal pencils of varying hardnesses and brands (I keep trying out new ones) on smooth newsprint. What I've been trying to do lately is to figure out how to use tones to bring out the forms. It's been kinda hard going.

Here are the longer poses, about 30 minutes: