Professional Grade Confusion

Am I allergic to proper rhythms or something? Ten hours of sleep, 14 hours of being awake, 5 hours of sleep, 9 hours of drawing?!?! Is this some kind of joke?

In any case I have nothing of interest to say. Consciously, I can't even remember most of what I 'watched' in that nine hours, but the drawing experience was one of the best I've had in a while. I spent phase one (fig. A) doodling out whatever came to mind, phase two doing some basic referenced drawings (not pictured), then moved into phase three.

In phase three I pulled out the pose reference book Reagan gave me for my birthday. it came with a dvd that has 35 2-person poses, each from 20 angles. I grabbed my RED sketchbook (a birthday gift from Carol <3) and a pencil and spent time doing sketches more wild than I usually do (fig. B). For some reason "life drawing" inspires me to relax and do more expressionistic sketches.

With cartoony subjects, or people with clothing, or animals, I control my lines more tightly, push myself towards images that "read", that are representational. Even when I'm doing something abstract, I still try to make it tidy. Drawing the pure human form, however, my subconscious unlocks and tells me "we know what that is, we understand the subject, so capture it in your way, instead of capturing it 'right'".




Maybe, in a small way, this exercise was an experiment in shifting more emphasis to the process of drawing from its outcome.