Day two hundred and eighty-five: I decided today that with only 80 sketches left, I might want to do less copying of the work of master draftsmen, and more creating of my own. Early in the year, I toyed with the idea of learning how to draw human figures well, but I never really sorted that out. Tonight’s quick sketch was an attempt to draw a detail of one of Michelangelo’s so-called “slave” sculptures at the Louvre by using my own lines and shading. It is clear to me that I need practice translating a real object onto the page without mimicking someone else line for line. I flailed about with no effective plan, adding different media in a variety of shades, hoping to strike upon just the right thing to bring it all together. Meh. Since I only make one drawing a day, I am going to have to accept a bit of trial and error, and let some drawings truly be studies and not finished products. One thing is for certain: they will be all mine!
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