Before I start I have been asked to point out that none of the women I have drawn and posted are known to me. They are all based on photographs I have found on the Internet. So I have moved away from the Madison Avenue style book and back to what I know best - drawing based on observation and more observation. I found that when you spent too much time working out the correct proportions you ended up making drawings that were just not life like. The rules can become more important than what is actually in front of you. This is a bad mistake. This is not the first attempt I have made to capture this young woman. Yesterday I tried to capture this likeness using a large graphite rod. It didn't work and I ended up producing something that was much more impressionistic. There was nothing wrong with this but it really wasn't what I wanted to do I now realise. So today went back to paper and pencil spent some time looking and measuring and looking some more. Slowly the image emerges but it is a struggle. As I was working on this it struck me that if you had asked me 6 months ago if I could draw I would have answered no. Now I can and I think that is a sign of real progress. It has been hard work but now I feel I am starting to get somewhere. There are still many things I need to work on and improve but as the year is slowly coming to an end I think I can feel very proud of what I have achieved. Let's hope the new year is as rewarding as this has been. Goodness only knows where that will take me.
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