Election Day Life Drawing

I spent the day live sketching the election day, something I've never done before. It was a lot of fun. While the campaigns provided a plethora of material to keep me drawing all day, I surprised myself that I did in fact draw cartoons all day (I'll post those tomorrow). But about the time that the polls were closing here in Wisconsin, I wandered down to the open life drawing on campus for a little r & r. I took my wacom and did some digital painting and sketching.

And by the time I got home, I had enough time to check the election results and of course Obama came out on top.

Life Drawing Bonanza

I've been trying to attend the weekly open life drawing sessions at Stout, and I hadn't missed a one until a couple weeks ago. Here are a few sketches I did over the last couple months. We haven't done any long poses (I think the longest so far was 30 min.) and usually that would upset me, however, I'm drawing in a sketchbook these days, anything between 10 and 30 minutes is fine by me.