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My Sketchy Life – scritch, scratch and stretch

I have little energy and my hip is sore .  Usually, I stand at the easel when drawing but my hip is so sore this week I sat.  I’ve been stretching my hip and back every day but scritching and scratching at the art.

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Charcoal

When the teacher saw this she commented that it looked like someone sitting at a bus stop!  She said it kindly and  I agreed.  So I quickly scribbled, skritched and scratched over the original.  At least now it looks like the bus has just arrived. 

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Charcoal. 

This was an exercise on finding reference points in the room to draw the figure.  I spent so long finding the points that I didn’t have time for the figure!
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I was fading fast and so were my drawings!

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Charcoal

Hopefully, next class, instead of scritch and scratch I’ll stretch with the art.

 

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My sketchy life – equal opportunity nudes

It’s been called to my attention that while I post drawings of female nudes front and rear I don’t post male nude drawings full front.  

I am  so used to seeing women bare it all in the media that I don’t think twice about my female drawings.  I wonder if, deep down, I’m actually a prude?

Charcoal sketches

Charcoal sketches

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Graphite pencil sketch

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Graphite pencil sketch

Here’s to woman’s liberation and male, dare I say, penile picture poses!

 

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Sneek a Peek – back to back basics

The general consensus among my women art classmates is they prefer drawing female curves rather than male muscles.  Next week I’ll ask the men.   One of the women said her husband was VERY upset she would take a class where the focus was staring at nude men.

For these sketches I threw muscles to the wind and just drew.  I took a few liberties (like cutting off the models head because he was wearing a ridiculous helmet which I refused to draw and beefing him up a bit to match my own fantasies . . .)

I’m only sharing the back views I drew . . . don’t want to upset any of YOU that I’ve been staring at full frontal nude men . . .

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15 minute pose, charcoal sketch

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5 minute pose, charcoal sketch

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20 minute pose, charcoal sketch