Went to my first life drawing class in some time. I'll probably go back for the once a month happening from now on. Had a very rough time the first hour. Warmed up and got this sketch.
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Mostly sketches. Occasionally a painting. Nothing political other than caricatures reinforcing the truism "Politics is Show Business for Ugly People".
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Love it!
I really like her features and expression...believable that she's focused on something. And there's something very cool about the rectangular cast shadow (?) on the front of her dress...or maybe it's an apron? The way you fade the edges...probably comes from yr urgency to get in as much of the figure as possible--but it reads with a subtle veracity that's tuff to capture. Nice!!
It's beautiful Ellis. I think you should play more with leaving your comic book drawings uninked to preserve all the pencil's subtleties. Just use Photoshop to clean up and play with contrast and color!
I think you're right Tom. I am going back to Inktober today in a big way. But pencil is my comic book future.
Thanks Marty. It's tough to sit there and absolutely suck for an entire hour. I need to do studies off the computer or TV and keep my eyes and hand trained. A lot of it is scale. I was trying to draw big skulls and couldn't. Every skull I had drawn for 6 months was no bigger than a quarter. Now I was drawing saucer plates. It wouldn't click.
Do you find you're the only one using pencil? In the life drawing I go to, no one uses straight graphite. I've stopped and am moving to watercolor.
What the room looked like the night I was drawing. Interesting. I noticed another youtube video in my collection. Mentioning an art trip to the fiargrounds. Sure enough, a life drawing session, my last, almost exactly a year ago. No wonder I can't draw. Extreme atrophy.
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