Get ready to draw! It's Monday Night RAW!

A few months back I came up with an idea to start holding a life drawing meetup. I was surprising to find so few places in Los Angeles that offered life drawing. The one place closest that I found only met once a week and the other was 45 minutes through the worst rush hour traffic. Well I really felt like I needed do something to keep from getting rusty. So I found a willing model invited people to come and draw. Ever since I along with a few other artist and a very lovely model have been hosting bi-weekly meetups. We get together Mondays and Thursdays and draw! We have a very strict schedule that keeps the artist from taking advantage of the model. We are always trying to find a few more die hards to color in the negative spaces. So, if your are on the west side of L.A. and are interested in drawing check us out. To get more information and updates about future meet ups join our group on facebook (Westside Life Drawing).

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