man sleeping on yellow quilt - drawing in colored pencil and pencil

Nap with Yellow Quilt

By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 10 Nov 2020


No hands in this piece, because I am a little sick of them. Just some relaxation and a cozy quilt.

Man sleeping on yellow quilt - drawing in pencil and colored pencil

I need to work more on how to draw fabric. When I was in college, my artist friends SWORE by fabric, because it was apparently so easy to draw, and they said you could use it to cover up pretty much any drawing error, etc. "Foreshortening mistake? Put a sheet on it!" they said. That sort of thing. 

For me, like anything, I imagine it will be a matter of practice. But I wonder why it came so easy to my college friends. Like, did they spend high school drawing old towels, just for the practice?

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Current projects: writing a literary history book about Victorian and Edwardian fiction as successor to the medieval dream vision genre. Learning to draw. Slooooowly learning the fancier ins and outs of the roll20 VTT.


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