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Shiver me bones

I really really must get myself a proper skeleton model. a hundred anatomy books cannot substitute for a 3D model that one can actually touch and see from a continuum of angles(damn, is this an indictment of drawing??).

I can't resist saying it. Browsing this shop gives me a boner. :)

Forensics

"the only good way to clean the bones was to simmer them in a covered steam vat for the better part of the day, then scrub off the softened tissue with a toothbrush (not my own personal one, mind you)...Needless to say, [my wife] wasn't thrilled when she arrived home to the stench of cooking flesh and found a decaying human skull and femur simmering in her eight-quart kettle." (link)

No, it wasn't CSI that got me to nose around the field of forensics (though I was thrilled to learn of its exitence through a friend). From a love of the living body comes a curiosity for the dead, and a penchant for science leads to the need to pin down reality by measurement and classification. So drawing leads to anatomy and anatomy leads to forensics. And then you start roaming around life with X-ray eyes, enunciating insertion points and bony processes where once mere fleshy lumps used to lie.

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Vanitas

Brush on moleskine, vainly a little bit cleaned up on photoshop.

3 asian heads

In spite of different positioning, the pattern is clear. After scaling to align height of top of eyebrow and bottom of chin (let's call that "face") one finds facial features size (both height and width, though not shape) to be mostly similar: eyes, nose, mouth, mostly take up the same real estate on the face. What makes or breaks the portrait is skull proportions, which differ wildly: how high is the widest point of the cheekbones? On one example it happens just below the eye, on another just above the nostril. What is the shape of the skull's outline? How many eyes would fit between the outside of the eye and the outside of the skull? On one of them, about one eye, on another there is almost no space. The first thing to get on a portrait is the gesture of the whole skull, not facial details.

airborne indiscretion

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at the airport

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The quasipronti guy as he prepared my fusilli.



...and a random civilian with gorgeous hair.

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Burn Baby Burn

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Just got myself a beautiful Pentel Brush Pen. Bled the first cartridge in less than a week, it is that much fun :)

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Beautiful redhead

last evening

Poison Green Bubble, or Muck Run Amok

What a lovely, poisonous green. Had to run to snap it before it changed hue and finally burst. Such wonders and more are held in store for the lucky one who volunteers to clean the kitchen sink for me. Come and gather ye all, who shall be the lucky one?

15 Minutes with my Right Hand

It is almost impossible to do an honest blind drawing that is devoid of some aesthetical value. Why?

Fact: Proprioception is plastic in the adult human.

Theory: When you do an honest blind drawing you are not pretending but are actually touching (no "" allowed, the frst quality of a hypnotist is the confidence of his delusion) the object, this is a direct connection between the visual brain and the muscles of the hand, unmediated by any CPU processing. There is no mental exertion during an honest blind drawing. This is lovemaking untrammeled by doubt. This is a footnote in cybernetics. And the muck that stays on the paper is a physical trace of the act of touching through action-at-a-distance. The detailed report of a massage. The worldline of a caress. Hence its automatic aesthetical/sensual value. We all love to watch.

The drawing above: I did it in 15 minutes, alone, with my right hand. Try not to spoil the philosophical moment by thinking up gutter puns on that motif.

Tonight at 5 AM

Lunch break

A quick portrait during lunch break.