Such a treat to draw lovely Chiqui Love!
I met her at the Life Drawing with Berlin Strippers Collective session I recently attended, and I have been so thrilled to see the group thriving.
Chiqui is a terrific model, with burlesque performer skills as well as pole, and she brought fabulous outfits for the session.
I also created some drawings of her in her outfits for my Patreon-funded blog and you can see them there!
The session was put on by Berlin life drawing session organizers Alexandra Ru and Liana Gilman of Sketcherei.
Everything was very well-organized, with excellent lighting!
Chiqui also had an excellent playlist!
Berlin’s life drawing scene, with its diversity, strong female-identifying presence, and inclusion of sex workers, is a miracle and a treasure. I am so grateful to work and draw in this city alongside my colleagues!
Life drawing with strippers is the best idea!
Maxine was the beautiful, athletic young model. Strippers are extremely strong and graceful, so they can take and hold wild poses!
Above and below, actual one-minute poses!
I saw fellow Berlin artists like Alexandra Ru (@barsketcher) and Sam (@midnightillustration).
I 
The washes of cadmium yellow are from a 
Colleen Doran sent it to me for 
Here’s Maxine giving a lap dance to Chloe, another member of the collective!
This drawing and the one below were drawn from memory, not poses, using my “mental snapshot” technique developed in my years as a courtroom artist.
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At the end of the night a lucky artist got a personal lap dance 🙂