We were downtown last night for a life-drawing session with a twist – the models come in costumes. Dr Sketchy’s Anti-art School arranges for ladies in themed outfits to show up at Mercury Lounge and pose, and local animators and drawing enthusiasts show up to record it all in pencil. They’re generally racier costumes, but this particular event, “Big in Japan” was all about kimonos! Very neat!
Speed-drawing costumes in five minutes is considerably harder than drawing nudes, but even knowing that it was still a soul-crushing, frustrating experience. I managed to get two or three decent drawings out of the night, but I’m out of practice (again) and most of my drawings sucked badly. I recognise that I’ll only see improvement through practice, but this one was tough. Meh. Pep talks welcome at this point. 
Here’s one of the better images, with a splash of colour courtesy of photoshop to distract you from all my screwups.
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