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Drawing Advice
Reading this thread, I thought it might be a good place to ask a drawing question. The life drawing class I have been attending is starting up again tonight after a summer hiatus. The two hours usually include several sixty-second gestures, several two-minute poses, some 5 - 10 minutes and usually only one twenty-minute pose at the end of the class. While I really enjoy drawing the whole figure I am frustrated in not having a portrait drawing class available until the end of October.
My question is, would I be better off concentrating on the head alone, or continuing studies of the whole figure, as far as developing my drawing skills? I usually only get a contour drawing with little form development/shading and then only in the twenty-minute pose.
Jeff, I really love your cat portrait of Smudge! I hope you put it in the show. I also really admire the time you put into drawing. About how many hours would you say you spend on drawing and, if you work full time, how do you squeeze it in?
Much of the time I feel frustrated in trying to study drawing alone. I really need direction and can't find any in Cleveland. I know, hard to believe, it's not like I live in a small town.
Pat Joyce (Meyers)
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