There were more compelling things to do than life drawing on Thursday night - it was the cast & crew screening of "The Spine", which is a new animated film by Chris Landreth. Some ink drawings of mine (the `Handguy' series, from my "
Unique Journal" drawing collection) were the starting point of one of his character designs. It is a remarkable and troubling work - what you might expect if Tolstoi or Chekhov and Dali had collaborated in CG animation.
On Friday, family stuff tied up my early evening, but I did arrive in time for the last hour of the Friday drawing session. D- was working, and this is one of the
15-minute poses she took. There was also a head study that was too awkward. The standing pose worked out better, but I have reduced her head in Photoshop about 10% from the original, owing to an obvious scale jump in the drawing from head to body.
A good argument for stepping back regularily from a drawing in process, to correct these irregularities in mid-process.
