sketches

This week Amy asked me about my preparatory sketches for the 'fat' illustration, so here they are. I'm afraid I'm not very professional when it comes to planning. The composition and style usually comes together in my head and then I sketch out a few poses, mainly to see if I'm capable of pulling it off. I then draw onto the paper, rub it out and re-draw it about 10 times, then when I get completely frustrated and lose patience I just take the plunge and draw it in pen.

The fat headed lady was done in pigma pen and coloured pencil. The paper is some old recycled letter writing paper (not very sturdy, which is why I didn't attempt to paint on it).

I should probably spend more time sketching, that way I wouldn't keep drawing the damn hands backwards! Did you notice? I hope not. Mr You was kind enough to tell me that it suited her strange body shape.

Anyway, you'll be glad to know that I intend to remedy these anatomy issues. Mr You and I have started a life drawing course. It's only the first week in and considering neither of us have done it in over 10 years we're a little rusty. We're not used to standing up for two and a half hours, but it was good fun.