Well the last one is not bad. Though she appears to be leaning back a bit too much – I think that is mostly because the legs are wrong – which I think is in turn because I ran out of room for the right foot so couldn’t get it right. But the face is pretty good, and even the hand! Not too fish-fingery!!

The one minute poses were a nightmare though. I wandered round the class and saw some of the other series of sketches that had been done and they were much better.

I think you’re right though. I need to be bolder with my first lines, and don’t block in the lines.

i’d make an effort to go back and forth over your lines less — it loses the spontanaeity. try to draw your lines deftly in single strokes rather than stopping half-way and picking up the line again or going over and over them.