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Ocelot II

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7. Excellent! I've been taking art classes now for about 9 years
Sun Jun 2, 2024, 12:15 PM
Jun 2024

and it's been really exciting. The instructor is great, he maintains that drawing is absolutely fundamental to everything else, and even when you get to more advanced painting he insists on a good underlying drawing. One class in figure drawing involved learning the basics of proportions of human bodies and faces. (I'm still not comfortable with faces because it's hard to aim the eyes.) I think you'll really enjoy it.

We did basic figures like this:


and worked up to more complicated ones like this:





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