Day one hundred and thirty-six: After a long day I just needed something – anything – to sketch. What you see here is a study of a very worn medieval sculpture (I believe 12th or 13th century), which can be viewed at the Cluny museum in Paris. The headless king has been posing at the center of my computer’s desktop for months. I am quite pleased how it turned out, for although it’s not an exact likeness, it seems to me to be a reasonably realistic representation of drapery. And with relatively little difficulty. I feel like my drawing skills are very slowly, but surely developing. The sketchy note and marks around the figure are there because I like it when artists leave these incidental scratches on their etched copper plate prints.
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