Profligacy

Some people should not be allowed to earn a comfortable paycheque and have access to the internet.


I feel a little bit guilty about it, but the guilt is mostly overridden by the awesome.

Anyway, it's probably no worse than all my colleagues who buy those fancy sculptures of comic book characters ... right? And it keeps the economy rolling ... redistribution of wealth and all that ... in fact it was arguably my civic duty to buy this thing. It has nothing to do with the happy dance I've been doing, mentally, since I saw the box had arrived.

40 Days of Art: Alternative Life Drawing

I hope I've managed to make some sort of impression on how important life drawing is if you're intending to take art seriously. But life drawing classes can be expensive, and some places don't allow people under 18 to go to nude life drawing classes, so what options are there for a poor high school student who's trying to put together a portfolio to go to animation school?

Well, the same options that are open to everyone, and ought to be employed whether or not you can go to formal life drawing classes.

( Pick on Strangers )

( Pick on Friends and Family )

( Pick on Yourself )

If you do have any sort of freedom to go to a life drawing class, try your hardest to get there. If there's a college or university near you that has an illustration or fine arts program, they may have extracurricular life drawing that is open to the public. Even little community colleges often have a session you can attend, and local arts groups can have drop-in life drawing for a nominal fee. If all that's available is costumed life drawing, that's great! You'll learn a lot about how clothes work, which is important too.