This ones still causing me trouble. I wish I had the time to work it to wherein it seems to want to go. An odd awkwardness , and an uncomfortable feeling from the direct gaze...

... #drawing

A 3 hour portrait study in charcoal with a bit of paint

Detail from another quick figure drawing that demanded more attention. Charcoal and some acrylic in the background
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Just another drawing that feels very nearly exactly what its supposed to be.
From a 20 minute pose with a little retouching. Charcoal and some acrylic in the background
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A series of 5 minute drawings done over over one another with some erasing and defining later.
Vine charcoal
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This is a batch of watercolors from last summer.
A friend since childhood had died.
Like pretty much everything else I do,
I really didn't make these for anyone else to ever see,
I made them because I had to.
After spending a few months with them I feel like […]

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I may have posted some of these, but I'm curious how they get tagged from bluesky.
Some people here seem to be tagging all their life drawing as nsfw, some not at all. I feel like they're just drawings , they won't hurt more than it hurt me making them. And I'm ok, so...

Watercolor 10x12
Im testing out crossposting to bluesky, I wonder if they'll tag this as adult content #art #painting

A couple more, longer ones.
A 50 minute and a 2 and a half hour.
I realized the other day while I was drawing that, finally, after 30 years of unschooling myself I don't hear any of my teachers anymore

A few more, not ones to keep really, but as process they feel good. Mostly super quick poses.
I've been enjoying getting a little paint in with the charcoal drawings.
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More new things
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Another few weeks of things, a quick acrylic portrait, more life drawings ...
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Another set of figure drawings, some 2 and 10 minute ink washes and 20 and 40 minute charcoal drawings

Some more recent drawing.