and that's all for the life drawing book! golly gee, wasn't that fun, kids? mmm, drawing on wood is so much fun. you can get really drippy and wet with that stuff and it doesn't even bat an eye. i think paper would nigh on disintegrate if you tried to slap that much ubber diluted ink on it...

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life drawing book! oh my god. everyone should get their friends together and try the big group drawing thing. so. much. fun. you also get the wackiest results.

in other news, currently stumbled across the violent femmes on the old spotify. i know i'm probably stupidly late to the party but DAMN, they're good.

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and we're back to the preachy little book of life drawing. practice it, sister!

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moar from the life drawing book! ugh. i made the fatal mistake of not scanning these drawings as we went through the year. needless to say, after 6 or so hours of scanning/photoshop compositing fun, i have so totally learnt my lesson.

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and we're back on the life drawing book. man, i should have taken a picture of that thing; the binding job on it was ASSSSS-TTTAAAASSSSTIC. by the time i was through, it was literally an aborted mess of uhu.

every time i bind a book, martin ursell dies a little more inside.

managed to drop a bottle of water on the first drawing on page 4. what a pisser, although i'm kinda digging that explosive effect. note to self: explore charcoal + water. could be interesting?

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more from the life drawing book. godDAMN do i love doing those quick fire drawings. i'm not the fastest person in the west at this art malarkey, so having to bang out a figure in 3 minuets or whatever is. so. refreshing. it also means you have to boil things down to their vitals which i find often results in a way more expressive figure. this year has also made me think about mark making. alot.

BLAH BLAH BLAH.

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so to cap off the life drawing module we had to make a book about all the things we've done/ learnt over the year. i think it's meant to be more like a rather long note-to-self so we don't come back after summer and fall straight back into bad habits. probably the best way to get around that particular pitfall is to find somewhere that runs sessions but oh my god, those things can cost a pretty penny. does anyone out there know of any good, cheap places?

here we have the lovely cover and page 1 which is all about how to limber up.

damn i'm going to miss the weekly dose of doodling naked people.