Life drawing, with two models!

James Grigg
Nude Positive
Published in
4 min readNov 1, 2023

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My latest life drawings, this time from a session with two models.

This and all drawings below by the author.

Oh what fun; the nearby life drawing group I’ve been attending this year had two models at today’s session. While I only pictured them together in one drawing, it was very agreeable indeed to basically be able to pick whichever pose and positioning I liked the most between the two of them and run with that. It worked out I drew each of them exactly 50/50, so they must have done a good job each striking different poses and moving about to give the collective of drawers lots of options.

Here is that one drawing of them both together. This was one of the earlier poses in the session, only ten minutes, which was quite challenging to capture them both in (as is evident from the very basic face!). Also, yellow is not a colour I often draw in, and I can see why!!

From my viewpoint, they didn’t do many other poses where they strongly interacted like this, and physically occupied a similar space in the frame, which is why I otherwise only picked one or the other for other drawings. I think it would have been really fun if there were more poses like this, especially longer ones with time to work on the drawing more…

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James Grigg
Nude Positive

Artist, environmentalist, vegan, feminist, atheist, nudist, cyclist, chocoholic, trekkie. Interested in issues of sustainability and equality — JamesGrigg.com