Figure Drawing: "You can't kill it EVERY time." (nsfw) (Patreon)

Tonight we were talking about a young student who was having a hard time learning how to paint, and Tim mentioned the kid should be aware that "you can't kill it EVERY time"... just as I realized that I did NOT "kill it" on tonight's painting. What timing!

I actually liked my warmups a lot this time, though! Five minutes:

I did two sketches of the final long pose. First one was kinda stiff, so I did a second one to loosen it up.

On to watercolor! Yellows first:

Some medium tones...

And the final, which isn't TOO bad, I just lost a lot of the subtly in the chest and shadows. Ah well!

Something Michael mentioned, in regards to what Tim said, was that Bob Ross (whose instructional video the young student was following) would often paint his paintings a few times before doing it live on camera. If you catch Bob peeping offstage while painting, he very well may have been referring to an already-complete version of that painting. 

Practice, annoyingly, does help! And you're not gonna kill it every time.