I have a houseguest visiting from London, and on Saturday we went into the city so she could do some shopping. She met up with her cousin, also a girl, which means that I went shopping with two women. After that experience, I have pretty much vowed not to go shopping for anything other than furniture with women, ever.
Anyway, during my copious downtime sitting idly around while the women cavorted through the fabric and leather wonderlands of SoHo, I drew. I had the foresight to bring along printouts of references and my sketchbooks. Below are the fruits of my labors.
(I switched to a 2B pencil throughout for the second drawing, Posing Nude, which is still very much a work in progress. I may be ditching the H pencil as a crutch, which should also yield some better scans. In fact, I'm thinking about picking up some charcoal pencils. What are recommendations for scanning charcoals without smudging? Clear transparencies?)
Mother and Child
Posing Nude
Personal Comments
I still feel that I am inhibited about making mistakes, in that the way I approach a drawing is as though it must be perfect on the first try. I think I need to be willing to just draw and draw and draw, doing pieces over and over if need be - studies, if you will - to dispel what I read described somewhere (I believe by van Gogh in a letter to his brother who had encouraged him to study painting) as "the paper saying to the artist, 'You know nothing.'"
Comments and crit, as always.
