This sketch is the fifty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year…
Day fifty-four: I really admire artists who can draw figures doing just about anything. Whole scenes of men fighting or women bathing or both. I’m particularly fond of the ink and wash drawings of Ubaldo Gandolfi, an 18th-century draftsman from Bologna. He was known for his excellent rendering of human anatomy, yet his doodles were often drawn with fantastic calligraphic flair (see below). Mine could use some work (clearly I need to study anatomy), but I enjoyed experimenting with brown ink and wash and white chalk in anticipation of practicing more figures in the future.
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