Yesterday I proposed the Drawing Club meet again immediately after today’s class and I’m very glad I did. Ondrej couldn’t stay and Ewan wasn’t in class today so initially it was only going to be Nasim and I (which would have been very fine), but as the lesson wrapped up and I got talking with the new people, we found four new members for the club — Marika, Anju, Tori, and Lidia-Lucia. Lidia, from Peru, couldn’t stay today but Marika, 29, from Japan, Anju & Tori, two 16–year–old high school students, also from Japan, and Nasim all did, and we did 90 minutes of mostly 3–minute figures, but with time to talk and compare in-between.

In the classes we’re always against the clock so there’s never time to actually watch how others draw. We get to see the result, but not the work. These less formal practice sessions let us learn from each other a lot more, perhaps even more than the classes themselves.