This is built on gesture practice, but there's not so much gesture in the original pose, and it quickly turned into shading and values practice. I need to spend more time learning anatomy, for sure.
Anyhow, here is today's drawing:
Somber swimmer - Figure practice
By DoctorPlatypus | Doctor Platypus | 21 Aug 2020
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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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