theotherjeffrogers.com

Tag: Sketchbook

  • Tuesday at Orr Street

    Nina Tonight I used a rather dull pencil Conte 1710 B) on an unforgiving paper (Canson multimedia). Lots of drawing and erasing and redrawing and erasing.

  • Tuesdays at Orr Street

    Tilly

  • Tuesdays at Orr Street

    Tia

  • Saturday Sketchbook

    Helen With a new model, I tend to go really slowly as I try to familiarize myself with the unique details of their anatomy. Sure, there’s a way to do an anonymous, expressive figure, never mind the details; but I want to be able to conjure an authentic likeness. I want to understand the true…

  • Man on the Street

    I found my way to Shortwave in Alley A. It was quiet there, two employees, a few patrons, plenty dark. I had in mind to sketch people in the coffee house, but I couldn’t stop thinking about this guy that I had passed on the sidewalk on my way downtown. His mouth, shaped like a…

  • Tuesdays at Orr Street

    Alexa I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately going back to basics, and my drawings have suffered for it. It’s an interesting phenomenon. Anyway, tonight was a cerebral exercise in blocking in for portraiture. Not a bad attempt, but this sketch is missing some of the vibrance of the model’s natural beauty.

  • The old days …

    Jeff Mueller and his standup bass The Saturday drawing sessions at MU consisted of three hours of 20-minute poses. The Sunday sessions were considered “painting” days: one 3-hour pose. Most often, it was nude models, but occasionally costume and props were included. And then there was the time Jeff and his wife, Ruth, played music…

  • Sunday Sketchbook

    Nina

  • Sketchbook

    Bunny and the Metro Men

  • One day in 2021

    Raquel Raquel was our go-to model throughout the Pandemic—it was a small group of artists and Raquel most of the time. When we were gathering at all. Sometimes the model wore a mask, sometimes not. The artists all wore masks until vaccines started becoming available. No one ever got sick. Sure, a couple of us…