I don't have any profound words for this weeks blog post, a collection of both recent and older drawings. I'll not tell you which is old or new but let you decide based on knowledge you've gained following the blog. You can see a loose linear way of working, a look at figure construction and a particularly tight hard-edge piece which may be related in time to a "Big Foot" post of two years ago. You decide! Scanning the page, I really respond most positively to the (almost) black & white drawing below. The more colorful hard edged piece is just that, - hard! It's tight, highly controlled and a much more finished piece than the young lady in braids. Looking more finished might cause us to see it as more important, more likely deserving treatment as a major piece - a wall sized painting perhaps but it wasn't really finished when I ran out of time with the model. I would have given those feet the attention given the upper body (and did so in a similar piece of the same evening) but now I'm happy with it as is. That bit of (foot) looseness helps it relate to the other two figures on the page as all three feature unfinished feet! 
These two were actually done within a few weeks of each other but still they are quite separate in approach. For the most part I view my figure drawings as exploration and self education so continually vary technique as I work. The small spare figure was all about construction and proportion while the larger one (left) is much more an illustration, a study of personality and setting which could have been developed further had I really thought about it.
I've put them all here as contrast to the much more realistic "14 inch Red" pipe wrench of last week and the grittier "Dan by Window Light" of a few of weeks earlier. Don't forget, you can scroll back through almost three years of this blog to see the range of my drawing interests. Every-once-in-a-while I do that and surprise myself with forgotten pieces!
"Specialization is for insects." Robert A. Heinlein
"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape." Anonymous
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