50s insurance guy is quite flustered at the sight of a reclining nude from today’s class.

I’ve been using ink instead of charcoal for the past few weeks, but this is the first one that wasn’t riddled with mistakes and re-dos, which equals a frustrated jumbly mess of scratched-out indelible lines. Either I need to bring white-out, or start doing more decent (heh) ones like this.

This week’s assignment: A portrait in nature. Since I usually give my bevy of models Fridays off, I walked down the block to this statue of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on the edge of Riverside Park. Drew this with Copic sketch markers and a Kuretake brush pen.

Here’s the same statue in real life:

Watching L.A. Story and attempting to sketch Steve Martin.

Sketcher’s block? No problem, I’ll just draw my current favorite subject in his cool new hat.