10s to one 25

This was from workshop. The 10s really seemed to go by too quickly, but I chocked it up to my taking more longer poses this semester, so it feels like I have less time in workshop these days. Oh and s!ght s!ze class and painting class makes you want to draw/redraw/draw/redraw to get it right (my prof says the best is a combination of both; if you spend too much time only on long poses your work can end up looking 'stiff', so you 'loosen up' by doing the shorter pose/gesture work. I was looking at other people's interpretations of this model before workshop over the internet (and double-checking that I knew who the model was...I don't know why but it's important for me to know their names and interact with them and they typically remember me afterwards), and I noticed a lot of people have issues with nailing the exact shape of her face. Yes, beautifully rendered, etc, but her basic primary shape is challenging, and if you don't nail it it doesn't look like her at all. She was also selling some rare art books, and I saw a wonderful one by artist J!@ Lu who has an amazing sense of colour. One of the girls in the workshop (my friend, Lisa) said that when I draw she likes that it looks like I"m 'carving (the figure). I was reading Sl0b0dk!n's book and he was saying that when you carve in stone you will typically sketch out the figure first and then carve into it, following the 'drawing' on the stone. I would like to think of the blank piece of paper as a stone, and that you are drawing out the basic figure first (ie gesture/primary form) and then 'carving' into it. I like that idea a LOT. And when I went home I also did a teeny tiny bit of reshaping of my sculpt...taking it slowly. Being an apprentice sculptor/enthusiast/whatever I am right now (and she doesn't even know I do that) it was quite a treat. On the last day of my semester last term (just a few weeks ago), the model who was posing remarked the same; that my drawings looked like I was 'sculpting' and that was part of why she really liked them. I'll take it as just a sign to keep up the drawing painting and sculpting..I have a long way to go but I really do enjoy the sessions so much! The people are quite wonderful! My teacher also visited last night (he lives walking distance) and he may be teaching a class at the Guild, because they liked him and his work (and of course he did a bit of teaching in between haha) so much! So everything is falling into place nicely. It's wonderful to be around such inspiring, positive, generous people!