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Last ditch figure drawing! (nfsw) (Patreon)

Published:
2025-02-20 04:14:03
Edited:
2025-02-20 13:37:27
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2026-09
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Last week the weather didn't cooperate. This week our model was out sick.

Last ditch effort, we called in the last model we had (back in January!), and luckily he was free.

Confession: I don't love drawing Robbie. I haven't had much luck drawing him in a way that I like. Going in tonight, I gave myself permission to draw him as a bunch of triangles, or a donkey or something weird like that.

I started loose with the 5-minute poses, but tightened up immediately for whatever reason.

... and then got loose again.

I liked the rhythm of that last one!

We settled on a final pose we all liked pretty quickly.

And I liked it enough that I abandoned the triangle/donkey thing.

Y'all... I liked this one a lot. I didn't overdo it!

Unfortunately the side of my hand did kind of overdo it. I smudged some paint.

Ah well. Nobody's perfect. It's a practicccccce.

KNEES AND FEET AND KNEES AND FEET AND

I liked the knees and feet. :)

I'll probably clear all the figure drawing out of the shop soon, but for now, this one's available!

**forgot to mention the 50% coupon code! It’s ArtNerd50 - type it in at checkout and it’ll only be $40 + shipping!

Fingers crossed nothing gets in our way next week. I miss figure drawing any week we don't get to do it.

And I've said this plenty of times before, but thank you for being here, at this level. You're helping Michael and I pay a normal (which is to say, not a cheapskate) rate for our models, which is important to us. I'm about to start my 2023 taxes and "figure drawing fees" is always a big expense, and I'm always thinking of y'all here for your making that element of my life possible. <3

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Amy Crook

KNEES AND FEET! I love how knobbly his knees are especially, just so many cool shapes. I think this came out really well, smudge and all.

Dirk Bergstrom

So who's "we" for the figure drawing nights? Just you and Michael, or a larger group? I have _no_ idea how Real Artists do this kind of thing. I know that some photographers hire models, but since most of what I do is architecture and abstracts I've never given it much thought. When I do want to shoot people (with a camera!) I often end up doing self-portraits because I can't think of anyone else who's willing to put up with art direction and repetition.

Dirk Bergstrom

Also, I'm really fascinated by the combination of abstraction / cubism and realism in your figure drawing. I understand how one might arrive at photp-realism or sketchy-ness, but this kind of deliberate otherness mystifies me. It's like fiction writing or making music, things that I appreciate but do not at all understand how to do. To be clear, I have, in my old age, concluded that I'm happier not knowing too much about how the sausage I love is made. A degree in chemistry and decades of work experience in tech has made it difficult for me to enjoy escapist Science Fiction because I too often see "the seams". I fear that if I learn too much about making art something similar will happen...

Kevin Ruderman

Did you have to abandon the "Donkey" scheme so quickly? I was imagining you talking like Shrek. Figure Painting in Three Acts, a treatment (maybe I need treatment ...) Posturing in Act I: "Artists are like onions" Some minor tension is created mid session (Act II). Donkey is asked to sit on the blue box with red dots. He cannot find it stating: "Man, This Would Be So Much Easier If I Wasn't COLOR-BLIND!" Danielle mutters: "Get out oy my swamp, er, studio" but soldiers on. Act III: Resolution A pose is found. Colors stay when they should stay. Blend when they should blend. Paper stocks live up to their advertising. Golden Hour sunlight streams across the studio. Artist and model, all pleased with the session's work. Danielle is heard kindly whispering: "That’ll do, Donkey. That'll do." END SCENE

dcorsetto

Just me and Michael right now! We've had one extra friend join us from time to time, but it's a small studio, so we try not to fill it up. Michael used to run an open-to-the-public group at the college that I used to go to, but when it's open like that you have to run quality control, which is tough. It's mostly older people who are stubborn and want things their way, men who will only attend if the model is female (eyeroll), creeps, and people who talk the whole time. It was exhausting and not terribly fun for him, so he stopped running it and started inviting me to a private session at his studio, which I was perfectly happy to switch to. (He's my oldest friend in town, so it was nice to have some catch-up time every week, too.) All of which is to say, there's no one way that Real Artists do this! :) But, there are definitely professional models who will totally put up with your art direction and repetition, as long as they get the feeling that you know what you're doing and aren't a creep, and are paying well!

dcorsetto

And oh boy I totally get the not knowing "how the sausage is made" thing. My brother is a musician and while I love singing and building homegrown harmonies to songs, and talking to him about music theory, I decided long ago not to learn anything about how music is made, because I don't want to ruin that magic. Similarly, since I've been focusing on writing a lot more lately, it's made it much more difficult to suffer through a movie or a book that I can "feel" the writer in. There are ways to write a character so they're basically patting the writer on the back and validating her/him for doing such a great job writing, and I can tell when it's happening (just as I can sense it in my own writing sometimes, which makes me cringe), and it ruins the illusion of the characters being fictional. I don't wish that on anyone - you should be able to just enjoy art for its own sake! That said, I don't think I've ever had visual art ruined for me, despite knowing how the sausage is made. It's only when a digital effect is glaringly obvious, but then, most of the people who make that mistake aren't terribly good artists to begin with. More often than not, an incredible piece of art will just become more incredible to me when I find out how it was created. I hope I never ruin my art here by talking about how it's made! :)

dcorsetto

I admire your dedication to outlining all three acts of this script.

Kevin Ruderman

Danielle wrote: "... suffer through a movie or a book that I can "feel" the writer in." We all know she's talking about me and my "Figure Painting in Three Acts". I'll have you know that I won the Tony award for that! (That's when I'm so happy with my own joke that I reward myself with a box of Frosted Flakes)