Life Drawing- male figure

I've just come back from Life Drawing, and thought I'd post an update with today's drawings. 

We started off by doing warm up sketches - five 30 second and five 60 second poses. These are designed to get you too assess the line of action withing a pose- the weight of the figure. These are usually dynamic poses and look very rough, I hated them at first, but kind of got used to them over the course of my study, I see now why they are so useful. 

We then did another exercise, which i have grown to appreciate over time- contour drawing, and as you can see I am not any better at it than i use to be , except I draw with a different attitude now, instead of frustration and giving up, I try and try and try to get my hand-eye coordination to be better. 

And last but not least, we did two 30 minute poses, which has to be my favorite  exercise, as my 'perfectionist self' suffers a lot less, as a result. The first one, i was quite dissapointed with at first, as I thought the pose, from my point of view was quite dull and undynamic,  however one of my life drawing teachers taught me to always persevere and make the drawing better, rather than give up and start a new one, so I did, and in the end , it had some nice quality to it. The last drawing, is my favorite as it had the most interesting lighting out of all poses. The main overhead light was turned off, and my favourite type of drawing on black paper seemed just ideal. I really enjoyed it, however i noticed that, once again i concentrated on the torso, which i find the most interesting and neglected the feet :).