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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Drawmo 28: from the vault

No chance to draw today. I printed two pages (editions of 105 each), watched Bumblebee play The Black Bean Blower (finally!), came home and cooked a double batch of chocolate beetroot cake (it's my turn to provide supper for bookbinding tomorrow night) and once I'd got B to bed, I've been laying out a (voluntary) newsletter for the bookbinders' guild. Best Beloved is in Sydney for a meeting.

So here is a nice little number from the vault. I was looking through my sketchbook for my first-ever semester at Art School. Gosh. Lots of great ideas but so green about how to achieve them.

life drawing

I've always loved life drawing, but I used to get into trouble for exaggerating the body parts. At least I'm not making the tits huge like in comic-book drawing. In fact I'm not quite sure what is happening in that region here, but the thigh works for me. Classic art school student life drawing: no hands, feet, and a sketchy face. When I realised that was a cliche, I made a point of always drawing the model's actual face. But I hadn't had that epiphany in April 1995.


Oh, and for those interested, the Black Bean Blower play was brilliant. Here is the leading man himself (a bit fuzzy, sorry):

Black Bean Blower
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4 comments:

  1. Mummy/Crit28/11/07 23:19

    That is a fabulous costume. And I see you found the fabled black jellybeans.

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  2. JahTeh29/11/07 19:02

    Duckie thank you, I don't think my harse has ever looked better. I've never been better proportioned.

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  3. Anonymous29/11/07 20:21

    yay for brilliant plays
    yay for chocolate and beetroot cake
    yay for *glorious* thighs

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  4. worldpeace and a speedboat29/11/07 21:21

    ahhh Bumblebee looks fabulous!

    he reminds me of something from the mid-70's but I can't quite put my brain on it...

    great colour combo too :-)

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