Here's last week's assignment. Our task was to choose an original work of art and to redo it, or part of it, in our own way. As usual, I missed some essential piece of information, and ended up bringing photographs of runway models to class instead of a masterpiece (some sort of mix-up regarding the words "Rodarte" and "Beaux Arts" to make a long story short). I was too embarrassed to want to prove that I had tried to follow directions, so I just let the teacher think I was irresponsible. Better a flake than a fool, right? Anyway, she was nice about it and lent me this picture to work with:
Jeunes filles au bord de la mer, Puvis de ChavanneAnd this is what I did to it:
Guess I went a little crazy around the butt. Or maybe the towel just slid a bit? Today we had a live, NAKED model! Aware that the risk of embarrassment was higher than usual, I armed myself with chewing gum to help combat the giggles. I managed to be mature(ish) about it, but there was definitely a sit-com moment (pretty sure this happened on Friends or maybe Boy Meets World) in which I, unsuspecting, looked up and found myself face to...er...face...with a naked man, where there had been, just a second before, a bathrobed one. Once we started drawing, fortunately, the weirdness went away and it was really fun. However, because he could only hold a pose for about 20 minutes and I am a painfully slow drawer, I never managed to actually draw an entire body (in some ways, this was a blessing), so most of my sketches have human torsos and robot lower-halves. You'll see:
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