Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Afternoon Drawing

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours drawing with my friend Ciana Pullen--she drew me and I drew her:

(Pencil on gray charcoal paper, about 12"x14")

It was wonderful to have enough time with the sitter. Figure drawing has accustomed me to trying to get everything down in 20 or 30 minutes, so I accept all kinds of errors in a mad rush to the feet. In this drawing, though I had time to get proportions and angles right, I still hurried into it and then spent too much time making corrections that a little care in the beginning would have prevented.