June 17, 2006
Today I am about a third of the way through another pen and ink drawing, this one of my god-daughter, Lily… Although Lily is usually smiling and showing off, I liked her ambiguous expression in this image… Yesterday noon, Lily and her Mom, Sarah, showed up at the studio with a half-hour to kill before their lunch date (one of Sarah’s costume design grad students was hired by the Metropolitan Opera, and they were going to have a goodbye luncheon across the street)…
So I asked Lily to model for me and designed this drawing in a half-day, by far my fastest drawing design effort to date! By around six PM I got my drawing machine going and it began following the paths I’d defined, dragging another fine-point pen over a 66 x 45 inch sheet of paper…
Here’s a brief (1 minute and about 1mb streaming download) video of the “Lily” drawing in progress…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKPpQHlCSI
Lily, 2006, 54 x 23 inches, Pen and Ink Drawing
June 16 edited photo source ready for drawing
drawing gets underway with pen stuck into sponges for 'give' during drawing
head detail
torso detail
bodice detail