David posed for five, two-minute warm-up poses and then we went into a series of twenty-minute poses with five-minute breaks in between. Some of the twenty-minute poses remained the same, making them 40-minute drawings. Most of the drawings were done with pencil, charcoal or chalk.
We did a lot of sight measuring with the pencil, establishing limits of the drawing with tic marks and subdividing into halfs, quarters, sometime eighths. Using the pencil to establish true verticals, horizontals and oblique construction lines. Building an armature of construction lines and establishing varying degrees of accurate proportion without giving up the possibility of expressive distortion.
Lee drew on toned paper with charcoal and highlit in white chalk. Looks like he added some warm tones with ochre/sienna chalk.
