January 2009

The Sculptor

Some drawings from previous classes. This was a fantastic day. The model failed to show up. We waited about a half hour. Nothing.
Then, the organizer, got one of the artists in the building to do some modeling. He was a sculptor, and he knew how to pose. I’ve been having a lot of trouble capturing some form of “gesture”. But… when he started to pose, it was like magic. Suddenly my pencil took control over me, and started to do things I didn’t know I could do. The “gestures”, the dynamic poses, it all made sense now.
Here are a couple of the sketches:

Wish

To escape my thoughts,
to fade away,
is the only thing,
I want today.