Aie! I’ve let things go on far too long without updating. The end of the semester had me so busy that it was easy to let my blog fall by the wayside. Well that’s all over now! Time to catch up. Most of this post is more stuff from my pastel and head drawing class. There are a few more after this, plus other work and things I’ve been up to, so I will hopefully post those soon.

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The new semester has begun, and I’m getting warmed up and used to the heavy workload once again. Here are a few images of things I’ve done so far (some NSFW nude figures under the cut):

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More from my charcoal drawing class. These are all figure studies from live models, and therefore are nude. All NSFW images are under the cut.

All images under the cut are nude figure studies and may be NSFW.

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Prentice Will be Cleanin’
To “California Dreamin” by The Mamas & The Papas

All the cheese is brown,
Sheppard’s pie turned grey.
I’ll go for a walk,
Later on today.

Don’t be misinformed.
I will come save the day.
Prentice will be cleanin’,
at five fifteen, Friday!

So, please stop by the fridge,
You’ll pass along the way.
Please, grab your cream cheese and peas,
and your berry puree.

You know your pasta will grow mold,
and will be thrown away.
Prentice will be cleanin’,
at five fifteen, Friday!

Your Chinese turned brown,
and Pad Thai is grey.
I’ll go for a walk,
Later on today.

Don’t say I didn’t tell you!
Before you leave today,
Prentice will be cleanin’,
at five fifteen, Friday!

One of my best friends and fellow bloggers, Prentice Osborne has this fun thing she does where she writes what she calls a “Fridge Poem” every Friday for her office. She has to clean out the fridge at 5:15, and instead of writing a boring email to remind her coworkers to pick up their leftovers, she makes it fun by writing poems and stories! I love to chip in and do an illustration for them, but usually they’re just cute little sketches. This week, however, I went all out. So here is the illustration and the accompanying poem in their full glory!

I am chugging out so much work that I’m having issues posting it all. So here’s a huge dump of more characterized figure drawings and they are most likely out of order. The worst part is that I have at least twice this much that I haven’t even photographed yet.

It’s interesting to keep pushing this style of drawing. I’m definitely working outside of my box, and I think my characterization is getting marginally better with practice. More tomorrow.