I managed to make it to a figure drawing session on 5/26/22 at Art Works in Eagan.
I guess I wasn't completely disappointed with my work when I looked at it the next day.
We usually start off with ten poses at one minute each for gesture drawings, these are mostly charcoal and soft pencil on newsprint paper:
![1 mn gesture charcoal on newsprint 1 mn gesture charcoal on newsprint](https://3fb77c.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1-mn-gesture-charcoal-on-newsprint-scaled.jpg)
Then we move to some 5 and 10 and 15 minute:
![5 mn charcoal on newsprint 5 mn charcoal on newsprint](https://3fb77c.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/5-mn-charcoal-on-newsprint-scaled.jpg)
![10-15 mn 5b pencil on newsprint 10-15 mn 5b pencil on newsprint](https://3fb77c.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/10-15-mn-5b-pencil-on-newsprint-scaled.jpg)
After a break we did one 40 minute pose. This one I did in a regular sketch book with pencil:
![40 minute, pencil 40 minute, pencil](https://3fb77c.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/40-minute-pencil.jpg)
I am finding the, even with a time crunch, it is important to take extra time to look and relax.
Tension in this, as with most things I do, is my worst enemy.
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