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As you can see my New Year’s resolution is coming on nicely. I have not felt this good in a long time – really feel I am getting some definition and things are looking pretty good. Oh and the exercise I am doings having it’s effect as well – some day I might have a body like this – fat chance!

One of my New Year’s resolution was to try and make better drawings of the human form – I started this at the end of last year with the female form and now it is the turn of the men. The photo I used wasn’t as well proportioned as this drawing, well I think it is better – more body builder than this classical torso and I feel I have been able to correct this. This, after all, is one of the fun things about drawing. Off to London tomorrow to OD on art – usual come back exhausted but inspired.

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This is how long this took me to draw. I have been having a mini crises over the past day or so – I just couldn’t seem to make a likeness of the person I was trying to draw. My skill had evaporated. However last night I seem to have relocated it by, well there is no easy way to say this, looking and then looking some more and checking and finally I seem to have rediscovered the ability to draw.

Now I am sure much more experienced artists will laugh at this but I did feel for a few hours that I had lost it. This being said I did discover new ways of portraying the face which are really quite interesting so perhaps it wasn’t a total waste of time.

If you are interested this the actress Fiona Shaw.

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