11/18/06 - Life Drawing

We are lucky to have an open drawing session on Saturday mornings at the University. Here is a 55 minute drawing (last drawing of the day); 4B lead on bristol. This was interesting because, besides the model being dressed, she was holding a sitar. This made for a very nice scene but was more than I could accurately record in the time. I wasn't able to depict the pattern on the fabric of her dress nor get much texture on the instrument. Andrew Loomis talks about the necessity of simplifying, exaggerating and diminishing various parts in your drawing (from the intro to Figure Drawing For All It's Worth), so I just tried to go with those suggestions.