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drawing from life is always preferable to drawing from a flat image on a screen. learning how to draw the human body from life will help you to wrap your end around all kinds of shapes in 3 dimensions, around line, around light and shadow, around personality and expressiveness. it’s a great way to meet people, it’s meditative, it’s academic, it’s fun, it can only make you a better artist. being on the modeling side of these sessions has also given me a new perspective on the process, on what helps people and what doesn’t. most fun and fulfilling side gig i’ve ever had
Mar 20, 2025
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most recently, i kinda love how these figures ended up :) but also all yall should try doing these classes they’re so fun and also everywhere
Feb 27, 2025
u can really feel ur brain knitting itself together in new & exciting ways!!!! so good for experimenting w new materials & letting urself have some dedicated Art Time. my favourite bit is the few minutes after the last pose when everyone takes a beat to chat & admire everyone else’s beautiful art before skedaddling back off to the real world……….
Apr 12, 2024
I do “class mode” which gives you one minute, 5 minute, 10 minute, etc. drawings. so many different bodies. As I draw each one, I think to myself “wow human bodies are so beautiful”
Apr 3, 2024
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soon i will switch my browsers away from the info-eating tech giants and no one will find me (except when i want to return and be found)
Nov 19, 2024
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for example. at this juncture of my life i am a brick wall. even a fortress, maybe. all obstacle. windows up high, no doors. something is happening inside, deep in the tower’s belly. the soft thing in the antechamber is glowing. it’s hardening like petrified wood. and no one would ever know, because it’s safe there. peaceful. no ego-drunk conquering lords come barreling in, no sad pilgrims, no tax collectors nor gamblers nor drunks nor pretty stable boys with ringlets enter here. the wall is impermeable and unscalable. every armchair explorer that has tried to climb it has given up, released and fallen into the waters below, more welcoming than the altitude. they, like most, were not ready for blisters. the brick wall is a happy wall, a technology without failures. press your face against it, hot from the sun, victorious
Nov 24, 2024
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money is tight this month, so i‘ll be making no further plans. i am telling myself that i will spend as little as possible. i will use my time to practice the solo creative tasks that gnaw away at my brain all day anyway, to journal and reflect, and to struggle to establish something of a routine again, until i can emerge feeling that i have a handle on myself (for now). sometimes it’s fun to be restrictive, reclusive. especially in the winter. during stretches like these, i like to think of myself as a hermit or an ascetic monk.
Jan 31, 2024