Some long overdue life drawing. Done from photos of old 60's Playboy models (I believe):



I tried to push myself some here and do these as contour drawings, doing the forms from observing the surface. It's always astoundingly hard to gauge weight from a photo. Occupying the same space as a subject seems to be a lot more natural and I'm able to gauge things a little better. But for an exercise I guess it works.

IRON MAN

Shawn Crystal, Chris Schwiezer and I went and saw IRON MAN Friday night and though I tried to remain guardedly optimistic I was having trouble fighting the fact that I had a good feeling about it. In the lobby prior we saw a trailer for WANTED and I turned to Shawn and said "If there is slow motion like that in this movie I'm walking out".

I didn't walk out. In fact it was pretty great. The cast was excellent, the direction tops, the script had some weight, wit and a brain. It was the best popcorn movie I've seen in ages. Robert Downey Jr. powers this thing onscreen, but the master stroke? (well besides no slow motion) was Jeff Bridges. He took was is EASILY the thinnest character of the bunch and gives him a presence and at least the appearance of subtlety when in other hands he'd have been Snidely Whiplash. I could go on forever but I'll stop myself. Lets just say my fickle ass recommends it.

I'll try and post some FCBD stuff from HEROES this week. Thanks to all of you who came out and supported the event. It was really great, maybe the best year ever and a whole lot of fun. Hope you guys all had similar experiences...

-J JLa