40-minute Pose
Tuesday Night Drawing poses range between 2 and 40 minutes in duration. The last pose of the night is the 40-minute pose. Ordinarily the pose is divided into two 20-minute sessions, with a 5-minute break after the first 20 minutes. Our model decided it would be easier to stay in the pose, without a break, rather than try to duplicate the pose after a break.
Phase 1 (detail): The next day I started adding shading and detail to the hair and face. After refining and redrawing some facial details with a sharp H pencil, I began using an H charcoal pencil to darken the hair and facial features.
Phase 2 consists mainly of working on the hair and darkening all of the line work with a charcoal pencil. At this point I also add extremely light shading to some areas. Because I didn’t have time to add shading during the actual pose, I going from memory and from very light reminder lines/shapes that are meant to act as reminders where highlights and/or shadows should go. Unfortunately, sometimes I don’t remember if a reminder line/shape is representing a shadow or a highlight. Which results in a less-than-accurate rendering of the pose, but since there’s no photo to compare with the drawing, we’re all good.
Phase 2 (detail)
Phase 3: I added more shading and scanned the finished drawing. I opened the drawing in Photoshop, darkened the hair even more, then used the digital Erasure tool to clean up lines that I couldn’t erase completely with a normal erasurer on paper.
Phase 3 (detail)
