Just got back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop – went a bit mad with the oil pastels tonight and had a good scribble all over the sketchbook pages before I started drawing the figure. I’ve been doing it a lot recently to break up the intimidating neatness of the plain page. Blank pages are like bullies and they intimidate me. So I show them who’s boss! And then it feels as if the drawing is emerging from the background, rather than me imposing it onto the page. Does that make any sense? This is our older male model. I like drawing him, ageing bodies are very interesting. Drawn with pastels and compressed charcoal into an A3 cream Bockingford sketchbook, using both pages. Now I’m going to bed 🙂
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Definitely makes sense!
It does indeed
I really like this face. nice expression caught
Thanks – he’s a great model
Makes perfect sense 🙂 I like the red heartness in the middle of his chest
Good 🙂 He travels a lot and soaks up the sun, so very highly coloured. Good to draw