Drawing of a Younger Man

Drawing of a Younger Man

I felt the urge to draw again but owing to the current world shortage of bare ladies I had to find somebody else to draw. OK, there are probably just as many bare ladies to draw as there ever were, but I am not currently enroled in a class so had to improvise. The reason I have called this Drawing of a Younger Man is that the man looks much younger in my drawing than in real life. I didn’t plan it that way, it’s just how it came out. I tend not to have this problem when drawing bare ladies, but here I seem to have taken a good twenty years off the model. Also, in fairness, it does resemble him slightly it is not really a recognisable portrait. Even though it’s a face I should know pretty well as it’s been looking back at me from the mirror for rather longer than I care to remember! Why is it such a poor likeness? Well I guess that in drawing, like everything else in life, the more you practice the better you get. Currently I am out of practice. I’ve been very busy honing my video skills and have neglected my drawing. Maybe next term I will find a nice Life class and get back to the grind of drawing or painting bare ladies once again. Meanwhile I think I had better sharpen my pencils and get some good practice in drawing random people anywhere I can, and back to the museums to draw some statues. Statues are great subjects for the slow struggling artist because they really don’t mind you staring at them and drawing them, they work for free, and they can stand really really still.