Still Drawing

I always tell my students that the only way to improve drawing skills is to keep drawing. My first experiences in life drawing go back almost 23 years, and I'd estimate that I've put in over 1000 hours working with the figure ever since. But I'm not done. My current series of boardwalk prints is calling for a lot of figures. In some cases I've been able to find people to pose for them, but most I'm just making up. Either way, more practice will help me with the dozens of figure yet to come, as well with figure based projects yet to be imagined. It's why I attend the figure drawing group in Belmar, as I did tonight, more often than not. The 20 minute charcaol drawing above was my best of the night.