Fiiiiinally back to the figure! (NSFW) (Patreon)

I have been CRAAAAAAVING my three regular weekly events that I've had to skip out on for three weeks in a row! Art Night on Mondays, yoga on Thursdays, and, of course, figure drawing on Wednesday nights.

My good friend Lucy Bellwood is in my house for a whole week (!!!), so I took her along to figure drawing last night! I'll include a photo of her painting so you can compare our angles and approaches. :)

Back in the saddle! Here's my 5-minute sketches...

Here's my sketch for the long pose. I liked the sketch a lot! Obviously I had a hard time with his face, as I always do with this model.

I started off doing such a good job taking process photos, and then...

... got too immersed in the painting and forgot! Here's the final scan:

We had some good knees and good feet on this one! Here are some close-ups (I highly recommend outlining your pencils in colored pencil and limiting yourself to JUST the brightest most ridiculous colors, btw):

(Especially RED for those translucent fleshy bits.)

Here's the original painting if ya want it! Type in ARTNERD50 at checkout for your 50% off Art Nerd Tier discount, thankyouverymuch and you'rewelcomeverymuch!

Lucy was over to my left, with Michael in the center (he separated us so that we wouldn't pass notes in class). I love her treatment of all that chest hair that I'm always nervous to draw in! I drew it in mine this time, but only because I was inspired by Lucy's approach.

I'm typing this out at the kitchen table so that she can take over my drawing board upstairs.

She's currently inking Seacritters, which is a young adult graphic novel about capybara pirates (!?!!!?!!). Lucy is doing the BEST WORK OF HER LIIIIIIIFE, this book is going to be incredible!

Lucy's got a Patreon, too, in case you're interested in getting updates on her progress with the book!

That's it for now! Gotta catch up on daily comics so I can have a decent-sized batch for y'all tomorrow!