I know, you’re probably getting sick of these by now. Â But here’s me again, super-muscular, with my back turned to the mirror. Â Quite an amazing feat for me to draw myself that way. Â And to shave my head that cleanly. Â And to build all that muscle mass…
I fear my ruse is beginning to unravel.
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So I dropped in again at the tail end of a figure drawing workshop. Â I came in time to draw the last pose, a 25-minute one. Â Unfortunately, on a kind of “off” day and without any warmup, it just really went badly. Â I was doing it as a head drawing and it just wasn’t working. Â So after battling it for quite a while, I finally gave up and used the last couple of minutes to do this instead. Â This is nothing great, but the difference between it and the other is vast, believe me. Â 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. Â I wanted to be able to go back and track progress using all my drawings. Â But when I looked again later at the botched head drawing, I was sure I never wanted to see it again. Â And now you too can be thankful that you’ll never be plagued with its horror! Â (Now if only that were the case for the May 22 entry!)
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My aunt is passing through town this weekend, and brings with her more great photos from my grandmother in Australia. Â The writing on the back of this photo says that my aunt, mother and grandfather are baling hay on the family farm — but I think it’s clear who’s doing most of the work…
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It looks like this lovelorn girl is sitting by herself at the edge of a river or something. Â In reality, she’s a drawing model checking her phone during a break. Â Mystique ruined!
Anyway, I quite like this drawing for some reason. Â 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. Â But these I’m all pretty happy with. Â For a two- or three-minute charcoal sketch, I think it works pretty well.
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This is another sketch from a figure drawing workshop. Â I’m not at all happy with it, but when you’re sketching on only about three hours of sleep, that’s what you end up with: famed martial arts master “Stumpy-Armed Yul Brynner.”
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For some reason I was neglecting charcoal in the past month or so. Â But getting back to it yesterday and today has been good. Â It really forces you to draw in a totally different way, and I love that. Â Here are a couple different angles from another figure drawing workshop.
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I know someone who’s going to be huge in brain resarch. And I’ll always be able to say, “I knew her when…”
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Tried something different with this one — drawing only with straight lines. Â Kind of an interesting method; I think I’ll try it again in the future.
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Saw this photo of a couple of friends of mine and couldn’t resist it. Â Not to worry, this fight is only about as serious as an Adam West/Cesar Romero matchup.
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I was having a really off day at figure drawing. Â I only caught the tail end of today’s workshop, so I missed the brief warm-up poses at the beginning. Â So after I botched a few drawings, there were only a few minutes left, and the guy running the workshop had the model do a bunch of quick 60-second gestural poses. Â It’s definitely where I should have started. Â Not that these are great — it’s just that they’re necessary.
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