Birdie Bowers

I've been trying to do the model sheet treatment on Birdie since about February; I kept having to put it down and pick it up again, relearning what I'd done, going a few steps further, then having to put it down again. The photo studies were done in about February, I think:



Once I figured out his facial structure (in bits and bobs not pictured), doing expressions was actually a fair bit of fun.



But when I got to posing, it became rapidly clear to me how long it had been since I had attended a proper life drawing class.





That was sometime in April ... back on the wagon again, if it'll pause long enough for me to catch up ...