Looking forward to this. It's 7pm pst yay

@Chris Legaspi it was interesting. I was surprised how much softer the portrait changed with just altering the eye line

Lucky New Yorkers!

@Chris Legaspi Unfortunately not much here in the boondocks but there is a really nice art museum I can get to in a three hour round trip bus ride. I’ve been there a few times and it was great.

Really nicely done

Here are sketches I did for the first section of your free figure class. Criticism is welcomed. I think the reason I may have such a difficult relationship with drawing (although it's no excuse) is because when I was starting the art program at a local SF college, I registered for a Drawing 1 class with Robert Bechtel (a rather famous photorealist artist). The first two weeks of the class he just told us to draw, draw anything. Then two weeks later when he later went around the room to look at what people had done for two weeks he came to me, he said "What is that". I said "the drawings I did for the class these two weeks." He took a long pause, closely looking at the work. Took a deeper breath and mumbled "I don't know why you are in this class, you can't draw" Well, needless to say, I quickly dropped the class and never returned to drawing. But I wasn't ready to give up art all together and found my home in the sculpture department under Stephen DeStaebler. and got my degree there. This was in the late 70s. Another little interesting twist to this story. I was working in the sculpture department yard one day years later, and Bechtel came by. He said, "I've been watching you, you should take my drawing class" I was polite but didn't respond. I found the easiest sketch to be following along with was your video of image one below. Not sure why exactly but I think it was the sweeping lines. The hardest sketches for me to do were the gesture continuous axis drawings which I kept thinking "isn't this just contour drawing".

Thank you Darren. I was just working on a table. I’ll definitely do this.

Thank you for the encouragement Herbert. Like you say you have to begin somewhere.

@Chris Legaspi thanks Chris, I'm getting it together to post on the class channel.