A second drawing session had its inaugural tonight at Vitruvian. In a normal drawing session, there is a room full of people and one naked person. In my mind this sets up an odd sort of hierarchy and power dynamic in the room. The naked person is either worshipped as an object of desire, or seen as meat, as a thing like a vase, or a potato to be studied, broken into light and shadow, and rendered into the chosen medium.

Tonight’s session, everyone in the class was naked. There was no hierarchy. The model chatted with us. In between sessions, we talked to the model and to each other. The session was very social and eventually very relaxed.

Hopefully there will be another session.

Here are tonight’s sketches: