Practice. It must be done. I was a weekly regular at area venues for drawing from life. For various reasons, I haven’t pursued the practice of drawing nude figures from life and it shows in some recent sketches. This 25 minute ink drawing in one of my many ledger books, was executed at a time when I was as relaxed while drawing as the model was during the pose. When figures are bundled in clothes the challenge is to indicate a figure beneath the cloth, and I always feel a little leeway in proportions so I tend to attack the page with more abandon. When the clothes come off, if I haven’t been drawing regularly I typically fret the proportions and contour accuracy and the drawings sometimes suffer from self consciousness with evident stiffness. I thought this would be a winter where I would concentrate on life drawing but……..things don’t always work out as planed.
Drawn with fountain pen filled with Iroshizuku ink and Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen.
Exquisite Drawing Don! LOVE the use of the journal as the background… it so works.
I find this lovely!
(and puzzling… where is her right leg? 😀 )
I love the blues shades and the way you use shadow for the more intimate parts of her body. Congratulations, Don.
I meant “the blue shades!
It was a timed pose of 25 minutes, I ran out of time and the model got up before I got to the other leg.