I finally made it out this evening to a figure drawing class I’d been invited to weeks ago – Andrea suggested I might get hit by a boulder this afternoon before making it out of the office, since something seems to always come up on Wednesdays out of nowhere.

Doing figure studies was totally invigorating, though, and I regret not getting back to it sooner. The model was new at it and moved around quite a lot, but she had a drawable shape and chose interesting positions. I was completely out of shape and could have practiced a little more before class. My first few poses were a complete write-off, but by the end of the evening I was drawing things with resonable proportions again.

I promised I wouldn’t be too hard on myself, knowing full well I’d be rusty, but I need LOTS of studies before I’m anywhere near the level I used to be at. My linework is really bad. My shading is inconsistent. I made up new anatomy a few times. Lots of room to improve! Practice practice practice!