Male Nude Figures in the Holiday Season!
Gee, that sounds like a scandalous headline, doesn’t it? Actually, just wanted to mention that I went to my figure drawing group this morning….a group that I have attended pretty regularly over the past year, although I’ve been too busy to get to for the past month or so. It was really nice to get back and get drawing like I used to in college, (without the teachers, tuition, or grading!). Something about drawing from a live figure is incomparable; I think it makes us illustrators work important muscles we don’t normally work sitting in the comfort of our home studios. (Of course, if & when I eventually have my dream home studio in the mountains of Vermont, I hope to do some live figure drawing there “at home”, as I don’t think figure drawing groups like the one I attend here in NY will be as easily accessible). In any case, I’ve pasted a sample of my figure drawing work below, (this one’s from June; wasn’t able to scan today’s drawings into the computer yet. I apologize that the image may not be the best quality scan…I’m still learning about scanning pencil images). And yes, I chose one that is purposely “modest”, (i.e., not showing frontal nudity), as I’m not sure what the guidelines for showing male nudity are on this blogsite. I DO know that frontal male nudity isn’t allowed on my AOL website, which may be a problem when I do finally get a gallery of my male nudes up & posted on the web, (and I do plan on doing that….soon, I hope!). There has been interest from many “Kyle’s B&B” readers on purchasing some of my male nude figure drawing work; it’s a tricky situation, as I’m not sure that I’m ready to part with the pieces I’ve done over the past year. But I suppose I will be persuaded if the price is right, (I REALLY hate negotiating prices for artwork….and determining what I am willing to let go, based on the dollar figure I can get for it, seems awfully mercenary, but….welcome to the world, Greg). Anyway, just wanted to let y’all know I am actively doing my figure drawing work, in addition to the B&B episodes, and let me know if you’d like to see some more here, and I’ll see what I can do. In the meantime, I hope you are surviving the holiday season without too much craziness….and look for the newest episode of “Kyle’s B&B” on this coming Tuesday, Dec. 20th!
