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Not a great drawing this one. I rushed it, but it was kind of deliberate since I wanted to get warmed up without being too concerned about whether the first drawing was a good one. The forms don't read well, the line is out of control, the head is out of proportion and it looks nothing like him. Mission accomplished.

Michelle tells me that even though not all the drawings I'm doing are good, they are getting gradually better. She reckons that the faces have more character to them than they did when I started, which is one of the goals of these trips. She always knows when to say something nice.

This is quite an interesting one I think. Although it's not a good drawing, in fact it's a rubbish drawing, it is a pretty good likeness. I can remember her clearly when I look at this drawing (although it was just this morning I did it so perhaps I'd better not pat myself on the back too much about that).

I think I did catch something of her character. She had a slightly superior air about her and looked like the kind of person you wouldn't want to cross swords with.

Again I was deliberately trying not to produce a good drawing. That may sound a bit odd, but sometimes I think you have to force yourself not to try too hard, I do anyway.

This is my favourite from today. She was full of life, deep in conversation and jigging about a fair bit, but she had a quite distinctive look about her which made her easier to draw. Also I liked her, she looked happy and like she'd be good fun to be around, I think it helps sometimes if there's something you like about the person you're drawing.

The farmer's market was on this morning, (first Sunday of the month,) and I'd hazard a guess that she was something to do with one of the stalls, judging by her healthy outdoors look, and the ruddy complexions of her friends. What initially attracted me to drawing her was her hair and her profile, which came out fairly well. This is a reasonable likeness I think. Even after I'd finished this drawing and started the next one, (which didn't come off,) I came back a couple of times to make corrections to her profile. She was in the cafe for quite a while so I was lucky enough to have the chance to do that. It struck me that it might be an idea to have a couple of these on the go at once, so if somebody moves or somebody else gets in my line of sight, I don't have to stop and wait.

Last one from today. I must admit I got a bit thrown with this one, because he was sitting close to me and his wife noticed I was drawing him. I kept expecting her to poke him and tell him so, which I was dreading because then he would move out of position and the drawing would be over. As it happened, he moved anyway, and I drew much of this from a combination of memory and hints from the position he was then sitting in. Not ideal.

I wanted to get something of the twist of his body, and to get a feeling of the weight on his right arm against the char back, neither of which really came off. His back came out ok but I didn't get his right arm done before he moved, and he was moving his head around too much to really get the form convincingly. Pity, it could have been a nice drawing if I'd done a better job of it.