Death Becomes Her

Sketches from the recent exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire.

Sleeping Lisa

You know what makes for a handy model? A sleeping wife. Especially one who zonks out on the couch so deeply that she doesn't move for hours. Perfectly still pose, held for as long as you need, in the convenience of your own home, and free to boot!

Here's another one I did, a few years back. Same couch.

Thanks, sweetheart!

Betty

It's been a hella long time since I've posted, and almost as long since I've done any real drawing. Here's some drawings from a session at Spring Street Studios from a few weeks back. These were from the weekly 'clothed model' session. The model's name was Betty.

And when the model gets boring, there's always mannequins . . .

Garments

One thing that's always been a particular challenge to me is drapery. I've been trying to figure out how clothes lie on the figure, and how to depict folds and draping. I never figured out how to draw clothing out of my head, probably because I learned to draw by copying super-heroes, whose costumes are basically body-paint.

So here's some drawings of dresses. They're copied from photographs. I don't know who the designers or photographers are. Sorry, designers and photographers. They're not fashion illustrations. I don't really get fashion illustration, with their exaggerated, elongated figures and simplified silhouettes. I mean, a lot of them are cool drawings to look at, but I never quite see the connection between those stylized drawings and the actual clothes. There are no folds in those drawings! And folds are what's fun to draw, though super-complicated to figure out.