Welcome to the thirteenth of the month, traditionally Ungood Art Day on JSVB. A much larger percentage of my art than I would prefer, stinks. Just like anything else worth doing, an artist will go through draft after draft to work out the un-aesthetic imperfections in the work. And then sometimes the entire thing is just one massive imperfection.
Imagine my deep surprise when I came across a whole trove of this stuff. For whatever reason, I had saved several of those giant, cheap easel pads that students use. Maybe I was hoping they would compost. As it happens, ungood Art Day got to them first.
Today's opus comes from life-drawing class. If you want to learn how to draw people, you have to put in many hours into life drawing. That's where you sit at an easel and draw a human model who poses for the class. A lot of the time the model wears no clothes, which allows the artist to figure out how the body's skin, muscles, and bones combine to create posture and pose. After a while, the novelty or creep factor (depends on the model and the art class) wears off, and there's a window of opportunity for productive work. Sometimes, that window slams shut before the class is finished, in which case the wandering and bored mind imagines poses for the model and the instructor. See above.
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