So, my first thoughts on how it went tonight.
The art cub was very nice, the organiser met me and showed me where I would be posing and explained how the session would run. She'd already done that in an email but it was good to go through it again tonight. And they had heaters on both sides of the stage 😀The artists were arriving during that time and said hello then got set up. I went to change, as they called it, undress is what I called it lol, and put on my dressing gown. So far so good.
I spent about 5 minutes waiting for all of them to get set up and we chatted quite naturally all that time about nothing much. I guess they knew I was a nervous first timer. The organiser called for time to start and that was the moment of truth, so to speak. So I took off my dressing gown and got into the first pose I had practiced, avoiding eye contact with everyone and it seemed like no time at all and the organiser called time on it. It was a 5 minute pose but it felt like 2 minutes. My heart was really thumping for a while but everyone just got on with drawing like it was no big thing and that helped to settle me.
They seemed quite happy with the short poses and then came the two longer poses. One was before the tea break. Yes, artists have tea breaks! It was the 30 minute pose. I did get a bit of cramp and tried to subtly move a wee bit but no-one said anything so maybe they were making allowances for a first timer. At the break they said they had not noticed any movement! Beginners luck?
@EBearhug that was when I saw one artist had concentrated on my knees, the rest had drawn all of me. It was really interesting to see how they saw me. Safe to say, my face was not in any drawing 😀.
The long pose after the break was almost an hour and that was when I felt most exposed. I was lying on my back at an angle to most of the artists, they were on my left and my right leg was drawn towards my body, knee high and foot about level with my left knee. I say exposed because the artists were in a semi-circle and perhaps two were looking directly upwards from my feet, but I could hardly change position after I realised that. I was just a shape with interesting lighting after all! The things that go through your mind in these situations, honestly! It was a relaxing pose and almost too easy to fall asleep tbh!
So, when the drawing time was over and I got dressed, the organiser asked if I would like to be a model for them again! And I said yes. Next time is to be arranged 😂I feel quite proud I went through with it and a sense of disbelief they asked me back. Wow!
And I didn't realise how much I wrote here, oops!