Lily upside down

Drawn from life - very quickly!

lily reclines

Lily

Drawn from life in about twenty minutes.

Lily

Another view of Lily

A fifteen minute pose, drawn - as usual - with marker and a red crayon.

9 heads of Lily

Each drawn with a china marker, in about thirty seconds. Some more successfully than others.

Lily

An aside: much as I enjoy yoga as a way to keep fit and flexible, I've yet to be convinced of its merits as a repertoire of poses for life drawing. Which, FYI, is very common.

Not that the poses based on yoga postures aren't impressive - they are. But they have a certain unreality that I find jarring. It's like the difference between drawing people in their normal clothes and in costumes. Nine times out of ten, I prefer the former.

Lily

Our model and her truly excellent hat:

Drawn in five minutes with a copic super brush pen, and a bunch of pencil crayons.