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Final Nude Dude update: He was there tonight. He was a shorter guy, maybe 5-7, starting to bald a bit in front, slightly muscular but with sloping shoulders and a small roll around his waist. He just looked like an average guy. He seemed shyer than the woman. Between longer poses, he would sit with his arms between his legs to cover himself. For reasons I can't explain, I got a slight nervous feeling in my stomach when he started to take off his clothes. I noticed a few others in the room didn't want to look directly at, um, it, at first. But just like the session with the female model, we all loosened up with each gesture sketch, and by the end of class, everyone had done some amazing drawings. For me, I found it harder to draw the man. My sketches of the man weren't at good as the ones of the woman. I think it's because men are more solid and their muscle structure is typically more defined. Women have curves and soft lines. With men, you have to firm up your stroke a bit, be bolder.
That was my last class of the course, which saddens me. That was probably one of the most enjoyable classes I've ever taken. The instructor was constructively critical but very knowledgeable and sweet. Soon, I will have to start working on Monday nights, so I won't be able to take another class that night. I hope a course in something else I'm interested in will be offered next session on one of my days off.
Oh, and as requested, here are two sketches from two weeks ago of the woman model.
womansketch1.html
womansketch2.html
Replies: 2 shoutouts
wow! I really like your sketches. I would have been nervous having some strange man taking his clothes off in front of me, too. regardless of the setting, strange naked men are somehow inherently threatening.
Posted by tiff @ 12/10/2002 05:47 PM EST
uh, huh-huh, you said "stroke"
that was cool.
huh-huh, huh-huh.
sorry, i couldn't resist.
Posted by rukie @ 12/10/2002 01:36 PM EST