Here are some recent life drawings done earlier in the year at the Tom of Finland Foundation headquarters in Echo Park, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
I’d say this drawing was done in the last 10 years, as my drawing has tended to simplify as time goes on. It may be from life or my imagination; it’s hard to tell, which is a good thing as far as I’m concerned, since achieving that very thing as been one of my goals since I started drawing.
I attended the Tom of Finland Erotic Arts Fair in West Hollywood Park on Sunday. I went to see some friends and to do life drawings. There were 3 models in the 2 hours I sketched. They were all muscular, but not overly so, and all totally hairless. I found this somewhat annoying; I like body hair. Also, the total lack of body fat on any of the three was… what? alienating? A friend of mine griped about it: “Why don’t they use normal looking guys occasionally?” Looksism, I guess.