Sketch 365 – by Scott Hulme

This thing hangs in the lobby of the hotel we’re at this week.  Not sure why it’s a skull instead of a full head.  I guess the global economic downturn has done a number on their taxidermy budget.

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It’s always interesting to me to see how tiny things can totally change the character of a drawing.  I have different sketch from this evening where the same model looks about 10 years older than in real life.  But here, a rushed job of shading leaves a couple underdeveloped areas and a little stray line, resulting in a softer, rounder face that’s about 10 years younger than the real one.

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Art Center is back in session, and that means more drawing workshops!  It’s crazy how quickly one can get rusty.  Did a few two-minute poses, then several threes.   Some of the three-minute drawings were okay, but in the final analysis, [insert terrible pun referencing post title].

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I know, you’re probably getting sick of these by now.  But here’s me again, super-muscular, with my back turned to the mirror.  Quite an amazing feat for me to draw myself that way.  And to shave my head that cleanly.  And to build all that muscle mass…

I fear my ruse is beginning to unravel.

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Not much to say about this one — it’s  your pretty basic, garden-variety sketch.  It’s a little bit…you might say…wait for it…old…hat.

Sorry.

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So I dropped in again at the tail end of a figure drawing workshop.  I came in time to draw the last pose, a 25-minute one.  Unfortunately, on a kind of “off” day and without any warmup, it just really went badly.  I was doing it as a head drawing and it just wasn’t working.  So after battling it for quite a while, I finally gave up and used the last couple of minutes to do this instead.  This is nothing great, but the difference between it and the other is vast, believe me.  The other was so repellent I actually had to throw it away — breaking a rule I had kind of set for myself.

So far in this project, I’ve kept everything I’ve drawn, even if I didn’t like it and it didn’t end up as the post for that day.  I wanted to be able to go back and track progress using all my drawings.  But when I looked again later at the botched head drawing, I was sure I never wanted to see it again.  And now you too can be thankful that you’ll never be plagued with its horror!  (Now if only that were the case for the May 22 entry!)

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It looks like this lovelorn girl is sitting by herself at the edge of a river or something.  In reality, she’s a drawing model checking her phone during a break.  Mystique ruined!

Anyway, I quite like this drawing for some reason.  I think it’s because all too often I look back at my sketches at see one or two (or more) marks that I wish I could take back.  But these I’m all pretty happy with.  For a two- or three-minute charcoal sketch, I think it works pretty well.

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A quick little charcoal illustration of my favorite person.  She too has started her own daily creative endeavor — driven by a beautiful concept that puts my little personal project to shame!  Read about its beginnings right over here.

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For some reason I was neglecting charcoal in the past month or so.  But getting back to it yesterday and today has been good.  It really forces you to draw in a totally different way, and I love that.  Here are a couple different angles from another figure drawing workshop.

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1) Go to figure drawing workshop.
2) Draw five-minute head sketch from model.
3) Realize drawing looks kind of like the legendary Robert Van Winkle.
4) Complete the effect with stylish fade lines in hair.
5) Auction masterpiece for millions.

P.S. I’d like to believe that Robert Van Winkle is a household name for anyone reading this.  But just in case…

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