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Hi everybody!
First, I hope everyone’s OK.
Second, a big thank you to all the teachers for the courses provided here at the NMA. After almost a year, I still enjoy it a lot.
Last year I tried a challenge , legs and feet topic. I received encouraging advices from students and from Iliya Mirochnik, but I didn’t make it till the end: I felt ridicoulous in front of others students and due to my age (I’m 47), and could’nt get over being afraid of showing my work. I know it’s a common fear and part of the learning path. I decided to try another challenge, to encourage myself to embrace a topic that frightens me a lot: clothes and drapery. My main difficulty is that I don’t know how to look at a piece of clothe in a calm and simple way: I’m very soon confused and panicqued by what I see. I follow the drapery course that starts to help me, as well as the Iliya course.
My purpose is to be able to draw clothes in a simple, clear and living way, to make comics.
So I post my first drawing here, a 10 mn self portrait . I don’t use eraser so I can see what my reel level and mistakes are. I hope I won’t provoke a heart attak among you guys due to my lack of drawing skills!
Thank you!
Your figures look great! Very believable and expressive. Glad you decided to give the challenge another go. I can sympathize with your sentiment of your first challenge. Having to publicly post work that I know is flawed is something I really hate, but it’s also motivation to do better and to just get on with it. I’m 49 – better late than never!
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