I had time to pick up life drawing again recently. So I decided to post a few samples here. These are all 20 minutes poses. The blue or green ones are light-non-photo-blue and verithin and the black and sienna ones are Conté sticks and the first one has a bit of pen-brush ink added to that.
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So if you have any comments or questions, please use the Contact Me page and drop me a line, that way you’ll be sure that I will get it. I’d hate to lose your comments!
Sometimes someone thinks there idea is so great that others would pay to work on it, and they are actually doing you a favor by letting you work on it for free. Or maybe they don’t have the money yet but with your help they surely will get funded! Or better yet, they want you and a dozen others to work on the project and in the end they will pick the best work and only pay that person. Rings a bell? You may not know the word for it, but you surely have been asked to contribute to projects like that. It’s called speculative work, spec work, or working on specs and it’s seriously frowned upon by any professional worth their salt.
So much so that there is a website entirely dedicated to eradicating spec work: http://www.no-spec.com/
Creativebusiness.com also has a free article on why one shouldn’t do speculative work and the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook Pricing & Ethical Guidelines
