This is another 2-for-one day, riffing on the same basic composition, exploring how to simplify my subject matter.
I was doing life drawing on Sunday, January 10, 2016 at the Tom of Finland headquarters in Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA. These were the drawings I drew that fit the theme of this blog, so I’m posting them in the blank spot caused by yesterday’s posting of the 01_11_13 and 01_12_13 entries of the Daily Derriere sketchbook (the source material for this blog) as a double page spread.
The paper in the American Express Date Book (for 2012) I was using when I did these drawing 3 years ago in 2013 had such porous paper that the ink I had used for the January 10 drawing bled through and nike slightly the page underneath. Instead of fighting it, I used the properties of the crappy paper as part of the art for the next 3 day’s drawings. Today you get a double serving of derriere.
This is the second in the series of jock strap framed buttocks.
This is the first in a series of jock-strap framed buttock that plays out over several days. This one was done with cut pager. I like its simplicity.
My newly acknowledged freedom in delineating female flesh on January 5th’s entry (drawn on January 5, 2013) lead me to study the work of Wally Wood, who was very good at drawing distaff tush. This is crudely copied from one of his later works, pornographic adaptations of various fairy tales published in “Gang Bang”.
It was around this time that I realized that my self-assignment of drawing a derriere every day didn’t necessarily restrict me to male butts.
One of the realities in working on such crappy paper is that paint bleeds through to the other sides as it wrinkles the page. It would be counter-productive not to use this in the creative process. In a way it’s sort of liberating; I don’t have to worry about whether or not the drawing is good because the crappy paper makes that impossible anyway.