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Description A few of my personal favorites done at a Friday night portrait drawing group, at Literary Cafe in Treemont Ohio. This is great opportunity for practice, because we get all kind of models, different age, gender, and ethnicity. I wish every city would have a drawing group like this.

Medium: Top row are pastels on black pastel paper. Bottom rows are watercolor.
Duration: about 2-3 hours for each portrait.

A lot of the images are blurry because we would give the drawing to the model for free at the end of the drawing session (as a thank you token for the model to sit for free), so they were shot with a camera in a the back room of a bar. (The bar owner kindly let us artists use the nice large backroom for drawing every Friday)
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Comments: 20

nuclearcarrots [2011-06-27 20:04:13 +0000 UTC]

fantastic portraits! do you know if the Lit is still doing this?

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look In reply to nuclearcarrots [2011-06-28 03:04:08 +0000 UTC]

yep, we are booked all the way till September.

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nuclearcarrots In reply to look [2011-06-28 23:45:55 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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uranium-ultrasaurus [2011-05-11 03:23:06 +0000 UTC]

The watercolours are very much "wow" pieces to me. So much life you have put into them with just one hue for each essentially. Your portrait drawing is very attractive as well, though.

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look In reply to uranium-ultrasaurus [2011-05-13 11:57:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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T3h-Hugging-Monster [2011-03-25 08:51:18 +0000 UTC]

Wow, that's brilliant. I wish there was a group like that near where I live.

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Greeninc [2011-03-23 07:20:05 +0000 UTC]

Just started taking a live drawing class i really wish out town had a cafe like this. Love the work can really feel the emotion

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look In reply to Greeninc [2011-03-23 21:53:21 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. Maybe you can start one with your classmates.

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Cheese-Sama [2011-03-22 02:56:29 +0000 UTC]

My God these are some gorgeous drawings.

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look In reply to Cheese-Sama [2011-03-22 03:09:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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peachystarfish [2011-03-21 16:11:41 +0000 UTC]

Oh gosh.
These are amazing. Wish we had something like this in town. It doesn't sound like a bad idea to get a group together sometime.

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look In reply to peachystarfish [2011-03-21 22:55:59 +0000 UTC]

I think the harder part is to find a place to do it and have someone in charge. The artist in charge here is very good at keeping things in check, i.e. check with the model ahead of time to make sure they'll show up, and if not, find a replacement really quick, and keep check on sitting/break times during the drawing, and kindly remind the model to maintain the pose if the model got a bit too energetic, etc.

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Lii-chan [2011-03-21 05:31:33 +0000 UTC]

Wow, these are really nice. I wish I knew of a group like this in my town! I especially like the 2nd row, middle 3. You have gorgeous tones

Well done!

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look In reply to Lii-chan [2011-03-21 22:56:24 +0000 UTC]

Thanks. It's really good practices.

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Lii-chan In reply to look [2011-03-22 05:39:04 +0000 UTC]

Well, you are making fine work of it!

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coreyh2 [2011-03-21 04:50:43 +0000 UTC]

These are great

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look In reply to coreyh2 [2011-03-21 22:56:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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amyazmy [2011-03-21 03:25:16 +0000 UTC]

i lovee these <333
i'd go and sit as a model to get one

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look In reply to amyazmy [2011-03-21 03:57:31 +0000 UTC]

If you live in the Northern Ohio region, you should. There are a few really good artists there.

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amyazmy In reply to look [2011-03-22 08:52:30 +0000 UTC]

too far to get there xu
i need to cross the oceans orzzz

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