Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Easel Annoyance

Here's a few drawings done Monday of an excellent model whose name I don't know. Pathetically, I felt rusty this session having missed only one week because of Memorial Day- fortunately things improved by the end. I learn most by working through rough spots. Hitting obstacles through initial methods, fighting to improve has a way of keeping one fresh. The drawings are ordered from last to first below. All are charcoal on paper.

30 minutes.

30 minutes.

15 minutes.

15 minutes.

I considered titling this post "drawing afoot" because I so fixated on the model's feet (and hands), sometimes to the exclusion of all else, as here:

5 minutes.