Sketching fellow artists

Conte and hard pastel studies, on A3 sheets...

Ref sources posted online by artist/art-enthusiast friends from Chennai, India, during one of their weekend outdoor sessions. Many thanks for the inspiration!

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Refs by kind courtesy of Ganapathy Subramanium and Balaji Venugopal (posted as part of Chennai Weekend Artists event at Spaces, Chennai)

15 more sheets of figure sketches

More random figure studies using oil pastels, charcoal, conte... on A3 pages. Many thanks to the various ref image sources.

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(digitally cleaned up some partially erased smudges showing on the leg region:  left image)

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Most are from refs (free low resolution samples) by kind courtesy of Livemodelbooks.com, the last is from Skydancer-stock in deviantart, a few e.g. 10 - 14 I'm not sure where from - my heartiest gratitude to all for helping extend my art education. (More on ref use here).

Effervescent skills!

One full sheet (30" x 22") acrylic study on gessoed paper. I used reference for the figure, and put in an imagined face on her. I realize that brush skills come and go, and since I haven't been painting acrylic daily, mine seems to be always on the slide, and then its an up-hill climb all over again. My skills had recovered (some-what) by the time I was down to the legs, but I'm still far from a sense of control. I know its my drawing skills (which are up-to-date at present) which are helping mask my sliding brush skills :/

Btw, this one didn't have a charcoal underdrawing - I started by scrubbing some orange-brown paint on the surface, then drew the figure upon it in red ochre. Then I placed the highlights (roughly) and went on to block the darker background around the figure.

Please view in FULL SIZE, this is a fairly large upload showing the textures - thanks!

Ref image ('cept the face) by kind courtesy of Chamarjin in Deviantart.