Back to College...

I am still going through notebooks.  You  seem to enjoy what I am doing, so I am going to spend the rest of Christmas Eve doing more of it.

I found a bunch of my old sketchbooks from ASU.  Yes.  I kept a lot of them.  Again, they are fun to look back at.

This one is an actual man that used to pose for our life drawing class.  He rode up on a bicycle every Tuesday and Thursday and sat for an hour while we drew his portrait.  I always thought that he looked like something from Michaelangelo's time.  Fun to draw...

 This one was an assignment for a Fashion Drawing class.  The model was in a magazine...

Of course we all had to take life drawing classes and yes... There were nude models... The ladies were anyway.  The guys got to cover up.  Unfair and unequal at that time... I don't know how they are now.

Anyway.  All of these sketches were done in less than a minute.  Some were 30 seconds!  That was to get you to put down on paper what you were seeing fast.

It worked.  This guy was sitting in the library staring at the floor or his shoes.  I'm not sure which. 

It took me about two minutes to put him down on paper.

This was one part of the life drawing that came in handy.  I can still do a pretty fast sketch of someone if I need to. 

Then there were the classes that were mostly lectures... That's where the doodling came in handy... If you didn't want to fall asleep, you doodled...

Please don't ask me why I was drawing snails... Maybe because the lecturer was soooo slow and boring...

Please don't ever tell my professors that I did this kind of thing.  Hey!  They were fair game.  They taught us to draw.  We drew.  I wasn't the only one that put them down on paper... Maybe a tiny, wee bit exaggerated... I really don't know if this guy had a cat... It just seemed to me that he should have one...

I have the side dishes ready for tomorrow.  All I have to do is shove them in the oven with the ham and sit down and open presents. 

April, Seth and Amare are coming over.  As are Seth's parents.  They came down from Phoenix today.  This is the family tradition.  April and Seth have a very small house and we only tried it there once... Not enough room to swing a cat, let alone open presents.

I am going  back and look through more notebooks now. 

Happy Christmas Eve!  See you tomorrow.