I haven’t posted any gesture drawings in a while, so here are few recent ones. What do you guys do with all your old life drawings? Keep them? Trash them? Give them away/sell them? It’s gotten to the point where they take up such a significant chunk of my studio that it’s starting to become an issue…
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Just recently I had the same problem with a large amount of life drawing paper all over my studio. I took pictures of my favorites to have digital reference, then just said screw it and trashed them. Although, I am still on my journey growing as an artist quite a bit. So some of my earlier pieces are nice to look back at. In your case I think you could totally sell them, or the book idea is a good one. A professional landscape painter I know burns all of his poor work. Finished acrylic paintings.
Great gestures! A nice display of flow and swoosh! What kind of material do you use? Charcoal? Conte?
About the storing problem :O My closet is also getting a bit stuffed 😛 Just take some pictures and give them away or bundle them. Cheers
Thanks Tom – these are all 2B conte.
I save them, but I take pictures of the memorable ones and just stack the rest. I have stacks of drawings (everything I’ve done over the last 30+ years), but I almost never have to go through it as I have a digital record of the better stuff. The rest will be for my kids to flame or frame after I die. 🙂
Make a book.
http://www.blurb.com
Loving the second page full of exagerated poses and features. Nice D!
you could publish your own book of anatomy/studies. then sell them/give them away to friends, family, and fans
http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2007/09/gallery-flambeau.html
hah – that’s awesome! Gurney to the rescue…