Today, I joined another 20-min x 6-pose croquis session, and — no insult intended here — the model today was a very lean person. Her body inspired me a certain direction of painting. A naked body can be seen as something exposed to danger, threat, pressure, etc. Of course, I do not mean to say today’s model was victimized by any of those cruelties. I’m talking about the direction of painting her body — a socio-conscious direction.
As you see in the croquis left below, without deformation, the model was healthy and a very good. A direction of painting is often irrelevant of how the modeling person actually is.
So, I made the right below one, with ball-point pens. I know many of you do not appreciate this one. Yet this is just an idea sketch. I hope to develop it into a full painting someday.
Above, I said a naked body can be seen as something exposed to danger, threat, pressure, etc. This is often one of the directions I follow in painting a naked body. And this time, I think it will work fine.
Left: pencil on paper; Right: Ball-point pen on paper
(Not for sale — both are just croquis)
No deformation here —
Ball-point pens —
