More Drawings .....

Haven't had too much time this past week to draw (or anything else, for that matter, but get ready for a backyard birthday party that was held today) but last night, I did. And tonight, I will have more time.

First, I'd like to say that I was getting concerned about copyright issues of posting drawings I had done of Dan Gheno's drawings included in his many articles in the latest issue of Drawing Highlights. (See the previous post for more info on that.) So, I wrote to him, asking if it was okay with him that I posted my own copies of his drawings. He wrote a very nice letter back saying yes.

I've been reading and re-reading and re-reading again, the many fine articles in there. Each time I do another drawing and re-read the articles I'm working on, more sinks in and more makes sense.

Dan makes a very complicated subject become much more approachable, not so formidable and better to understand. Yes, his work definitely does speak to me.

I've posted an arm I did. Working on those muscles is not as easy as it looks in the articles! With each one, though, it gets a slight bit easier. I erased the hand - I just couldn't include it here. It looked more like a bear paw! I'll get to those in time, though.

Again, the scan is a bit poor. I'm sure as I post more of these, I'll get better at shooting them. It is so much easier to shoot colour work.

The second one I"m posting is a torso from his Shapes and Planes Diagram. Drawing this torso a few weeks ago would have been pretty grusome, but this one came easy.

I just love drawings of torso's and was really happy this one turned out reasonably recognizeable.

As usual, I ran out of room at the bottom of the page. (These are all drawn in an 11 x 14 inch Robert Bateman sketchbook, 90 lb paper.)Otherwise, there'd have been the upper section of a thigh there also.

Maybe tonight, I'll have another one to post.

Hope your weekend's been good.