Drawing Fast-Paced Faces...

For the past four Monday afternoons I've been taking part in a wonderful Zoom meeting.
From 5-6 pm - here in Essaouira, Morocco - you'll find me drawing portraits.
About 13 of them each session - with whatever media I like onto any surface I choose. 
The meeting participants are the models and we draw to music.
One pose, one music track, one drawing - and on and on for the hour.
There are two time slots on Monday - on CET/Paris time - 9am and 6pm.
It's called Drawing Is Free and organised by Chloe Briggs.
Go to her website - drawingisfree.org - for all the information.
And yes, it's free. You just need the Zoom app. (which is also free).
You can keep your camera off if you don't want to pose but still draw.

All my drawings in these sessions are happening on
folded mixed media paper to be made into book structures. 
The portraits are drawn on both sides of the paper - over 50 so far!
Some of the drawings work and others don't, in my opinion,
​but I will let them all stay as part of the process.

I'm using gouache and graphite for the moment.

Everyone's flesh colour is so varied -
depending on lighting, computers, tablets, phones and internet connections...

The length of the music tracks vary from 2 to 5 minutes.
​There's no time for allowing wet media to dry - so fabulous poolings and blendings happen.

The man, above right, was painted to a Led Zeppelin track of 5 minutes -
that extra minute or two made a lot of difference.
I worked into the drawing later - see below - with coloured pencils.

Hope you can join in.
Chloe Briggs is also on Instagram as - drawingisfree_org
where she shares all her drawings, workshops and events.