Since most of my figure drawings will not fit on the scanner at all, it's been quite awhile since I've posted a nude here. This one barely made it by clipping off a couple of edges. The elbow is no great loss but I'm really sorry to lose that left foot! I know it's possible to do separate scans of individual halves then use a stitching utility in some program like Photo Shop or Illustrator to seamlessly join the two. Perhaps when I find the secret, that could be the subject of a future blog post. You never know!
For those unfamiliar with my figure drawings, the medium is Prismacolor Pencil on Canson Pastel paper. I work directly without preliminary sketches. I never erase! That's basically the same way I approach drawing figures with ink. This technique often introduces distortion so I don't expect the figure to be perfect, - I love the challenge though! There is one thing here that I do regret. It's that we cannot see the right foot either! Even tho' drawn correctly, having it lost in a fold as well as hidden under the calf looks wrong. Too late now!
"Naked is a human commodity. Nude is God's art." David Allio
