Thank God it's Sunday!

At last it's Sunday! Today is the one day in the week I can really kick back and relax!

Here is one of the figure drawings I was talking about in my first post to this blog. This one is probably the one that turned out the best out of about forty drawings in all. I find the back of the figure the easiest to draw as well as the most beautiful due to the curving line of the spine. I also pay close attention to line emphasis on my pencil drawings, making the lines bolder on features to which I want to attract attention or items that should appear as being closer to the viewer and, conversely, making the lines softer or even omitting them altogether where features are to recede into the drawing.

Note particularly the varying line quality along the edge of the arms and the lost line at the right shoulder and the lighter line of the left knee, both of which help to unify the figure and really embed it into the plane of the paper.

What I like the least about this drawing is the right leg which still looks a bit flat to me. Given time I would have reworked the shading to model it better, but as a rule I never modify these drawings when the time limit of 30 minutes is over. That way I always have a baseline against which I can estimate my progress.

Oh by the way. Chris, see, I started to post my figure drawings at last! :-)