Dan Thompson Figure Drawing Class

Here are some quick sketches from Friday nights at The Art Students League. 

I know this is hard to see, but my teacher Dan Thompson sat down and demonstrated for me his approach to getting a gesture in graphite.  He prefers H or 2H pencils on Strathmore drawing paper.  He uses points of measurement to get accuracy including a backdrop of doors that gave you extra intersecting lines to grid the figure as you draw.