Framestore, London, 22 July 2025

25 Jul 2025

After a four-week break from modelling, I’m back into a seven-day period that’s set to include at least two full-day bookings and three evening bookings. This started with a session run by the animators of Framestore at their Cosy Life Drawing group.

It’s highly energetic work, with two hours of drawing time featuring twenty-four poses, of which sixteen are just 1-minute or 2-minutes in duration. This means proportionally more time is spent in tensed dynamic postures rather than relaxed passive ones.

You might think such effort would keep me warm, especially in mid-July. Well, it does, but with the venue’s cold air conditioning apparently stuck in overdrive the organisers brought out a couple of heaters for me. My very own climate change microcosm.

Overall this session was a great way to resume after time away. Lots of variety to get my pose brain back up to speed, a nice glass of wine at the half-time interval, and so many staggeringly good drawings – from so few minutes – revealed at the end.