From Long Pose tonight. I’m not particularly happy with this, but not particularly unhappy either. It’s just kind of meh. Doug would complain that I failed to clearly define areas of light and dark. He would be right.
I don’t think she has eyebrows.
30 second poses on Pixelovely. I’m getting sick of looking at my own drawings. The lines I make are starting to annoy me. It’s like a song that’s overplayed on the radio.
More gesture drawings. Matt Jones, on whom I have a gigantic hero-crush, taught the class this time. He drew the bottom set of pictures on one of my papers as an example. I think will frame it. Or maybe sleep with it under my pillow.
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Anonymous asked: Hi Sam, I heard you like to eat and dance. Is this true? I'm kind of drunk right now. -Ashi
Who is this Ashi and how do you know so much about me. And why are you only KIND of drunk.
I took my first gesture drawing class in over a year. It was tough getting back into it, but I think my approach is better this time. I had let my pride prevent me from improving before—I knew that getting into a new way of drawing meant being bad again, and I didn’t want that. So, I just stuck to what I was familiar with. I made pretty pictures, but I never got any better. This time around, I realize I have to face the shame of producing bad drawings before I can take my art to where it needs to go. As Alex told me today, “The important thing is to be expressive; the anatomy will catch up later.” (Well, something to that effect, anyway.)
Clearly, the anatomy has not caught up yet, but I have faith that it will get there. You will have to bear with these mediocre (but more expressive!) drawings in the meantime.