Day two hundred and seventy-one: Today’s sketch is based on a photograph I took of a marble sculpture at the Rodin Museum in Paris several years ago. I’ve always liked the way the natural light from the museum’s windows fell on the contours of the nude woman’s body and created her form in black and white. Or so I thought. When I tried recreating it, I realized there are many subtle shades of charcoal and gray in the picture, and that they were harder to emulate than I had time for. The whole thing became a bit of a mess. I decided to stop trying to mimic the photo and just be inspired by the form. It went somewhat better then, and this little scratchy study is the result.
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