The people have spoken (in a manner of speaking)

[bluebren_livejournal]

Well, it's true what they say about LJ, isn't it? All right, all right. A little less Jinjo, a little more Jinjo-brand entertainment!

(biggish!)

I did this in class this morning while some visiting artist lady (that the professor let us go see instead of having class :3) was demonstrating her technique. That technique was: taping vine charcoal to the end of a yardstick and taking a half-hour to do an angular structural underlay. She seriously wouldn't get on with it until she saw people drawing along with her. But it was fun to get to do again, since scheduling did not, and will not, allow me to take another figure drawing course. :(

And that's drapery, covering her toe.

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[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Okay, am I misinterpreting this? Or were you all in there with charcoal taped to the end of a stick and trying to draw like that? There is something highly amusing about that mental picture.
Also: "angular structural underlay"?

And yay, pretty drawing. :)

[bluebren.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha no. I need to pay more attention to my wordings :)

The drawwer lady likes to work on statue-of-Zeus-sized pieces of paper, and for that she requires the extra reach offered by the stick. We did not.

And the structural thingy is like drawing the basic, uh, structure of the body, but kinda polygonized. To reduce it to straight lines and planes before you really get going on it. It is not meant to take long. I couldn't tell if she had to be that careful not to snap the charcoal stick, or if she just... oh, you know. :P

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

lol, okay. That makes rather a lot more sense. ;P

Okay, that's what I was kind of thinking, but I wasn't sure. Sounds like it was interesting. :)