5 Minute Nudes

NUDITY ALERT
Duh! :)
I have this continuing project that I like to do called 100 Days. The premise is that if you want to get better at anything, do it every day for 100 days. It doesn't matter what you want to get better at: drawing, painting, public speaking, dancing, making love, WHATEVER. Do it for 100 days in a row, even if only for a few minutes, and you can't help but improve. After the 100 days, take a break, try something else, or just do it again, especially if you are trying to improve your love making…

On Twitter, I'm tagging it #100DaysArt because 100days was already being used by another group and the nude drawings were freaking some people out. Speaking of nudes, back to the point. This time around I'm drawing 5 minute nudes. I find that I am not satisfied with my ability to capture the figure quickly, especially a dynamic figure. So I am limiting my time to capture as much detail as possible. The nudes are "figure models" from around the internet. I have found a few good sources such as posespace.com where the nudes are purely artistic and in common everyday poses. I have also come across many other sites that I won't list here, but let me just say "artistic nudes" searches bring up some interesting poses and closeups.

Anyway, just to get the G+ album caught up, I'm posting the first 37. I'll make this a weekly posting so you can track the progress with me. There will be rough spots along the way, but in the end I believe it will make me a better artist.

*Please note the dates written on each one as Google didn't load them in order. If anyone knows how to sort photos in an album, I would LOVE to learn.

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In album 5 minute nudes (37 photos)

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Drawing Class 8: 2b or not 2B

Tonight in Drawing Class I gave a brief explanation of what all those numbers mean on the ends of your pencils, why you would choose one over the other and why it matters. I touched briefly on the concept of surface "tooth" and grain.

To illustrate the point, I used one of Boy2's toy cars with different pencils clipped to it to draw lines across a page. This demonstrates how the darkness of the pencil varies while the working pressure remains relatively constant, thus preserving "tooth".

The class is free and online at http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19418035
The password to get into the class is in the newsletter here: https://www.artisticbiker.com/newsletter

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Daddy Daughter Breakfast 24DEC2011

Our weekly trip to the cafe to sketch and have breakfast together went by WAY too quick. The fact that we slept until almost 10 AND that it was Christmas Eve meant that we had COMPLETELY avoided any rush at the restaurant. I swear our food was to us in less than 10 minutes. Of course, the owners have started to recognize us and start our food when we walk in the door. The waitresses all know us by name and bring our drinks to us as soon as we sit down. We may have to start drawing AFTER we eat if they keep this up. :)

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In album Daddy/Daughter Breakfast (1 photo)

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The Santa Signal

Every year on Dec. 24th the Santa Signal calls Kris to duty!
So a lens fell out of my glasses this week. I'm a cheap frugal sort of fellow and am waiting for my insurance benefits from the day job to renew after January 1st to get new ones. Since I'm on vacation this week, I ought to be able to live without them for a few days, right? Except that now everyone can see through my disguise and recognize me as Titan Buff, saver of damzels in the dresses. So that, and the fact that The Artistic Biker Live! webcast fell on the Thursday before Christmas inspired this week's page: The Santa Signal.

See the ustream broadcast (2 hours) here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19325739
See the 6 minute YouTube version, complete with me and the family singing The Twelve Days of Christmas (Boy2's public singing debut!) here: Art Journal The Santa Signal

This week's featured artists were:
+Darcy Wilkinson http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/2011/12/52-pages-2011_19.html
@threedot(twitter) http://twitpic.com/7w3624
+jay the viking t.co/pVZzkxw

This week's in chat links were:

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/Timeless
http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/
http://www.theamplegoddess.com
http://eveline-timeless.blogspot.com/
http://moon-light-creations.blogspot.com/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1617235@N23/
http://www.youtube.com/user/EvelineUK?feature=guide
http://www.flickr.com/photos/timeless-etsy/
http://inkiwell.blogspot.com/
http://www.comfortableshoesstudio.com/
http://www.auslorri.blogspot.com
http://www.flickr.com/groups/scrappindipity/
http://artjournaling.ning.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/juriaan13?feature=guide
http://ikerrilove.blogspot.com/
http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/comfortableshoes/3/1/0/
https://www.artisticbiker.com/
http://art-and-sole.blogspot.com/
https://www.artisticbiker.com/newsletter/
http://www.facebook.com/OasisGalleryOK

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In album art journal pages (1 photo)

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Painting Class: Popcorn I

Popcorn painting from classTonight, I demonstrated the horrors of not prepping a surface properly, creating a background underpainting, and began blocking in the shapes for the popcorn forground.

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