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3/15/18 20-min. pose |
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3/14/13 10-min. pose |
On Thursday our model was Randy, a
long-time Gage regular whom I’ve drawn many times. During the break, I started
thumbing through the Strathmore sketchbook and found several sketches of Randy
that were dated March 14, 2013 – almost exactly five years ago. I found one pose
that I had drawn from a particularly awkward angle, giving me a view straight
up his nostrils. I remembered it because I had written a blog post about that foreshortened nose. Laughing when I
showed it to him, Randy said he had just been thinking he would take that very
same reclining pose for the next 20 minutes! And he did, just for me.
I could have moved my chair to a
different location to avoid that awkward view, but now it’s a tradition (top of
page). I’ll remind him of it five years from now.
Shown at right is the one I did in
2013. Below are a few more sketches of Randy from Thursday.
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3/15/18 1-min. poses |
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3/15/18 2-min. pose |
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3/15/18 5-min. pose |
It is great to see how far your figure drawing has come!!! Nicely done!
ReplyDeleteThank you for noticing my progress, Joan! I've been working on it more regularly this year!
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