Apparently the chair just needed its back chiseled out. Quick work, once you get started.
Sometimes the tiniest drawings can have a weird sort of energy all their own. I think I was reading a lot of Blade of the Immortal around this time (probably about 2001).
I am firmly of the opinion that drawings from life (even poor ones) have more artistic liveliness than drawings from photographs. The process of transposing three dimensions into two gives the work an energy that cannot arise from simply copying shapes from paper.
Over time, drawings from life continue to live on and remain in many ways vibrant, regardless of whether or not they resemble the model. And often an expressive resemblance to the model remains even when details are inaccurate — this can be seen most clearly after the passage of time, when the drawing can no longer compared to the real thing in front of it.
Old sketchbook! I date this to early 2000.
I’ve got tons of weird stuff in old sketchbooks, but I don’t know how much of it is interesting to anyone besides myself. When I find things like this, though, I know I have to share.
My drawing skill today (in an age when I do not typically draw every day) is probably greater than it was in 2000, but not by leaps and bounds, like my skill in 2000 was over my skill in, say, 1995. I guess everything plateaus at some point?
Old sketchbook time! These were characters from a ridiculous short film project that my friend Stephen and I made in about 1999. I got nostalgic and drew this in early 2000.
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