Well, after about 6 months now I am considering removing my 'green girl', as I like to call her, from the site. Every time I log on she looks greener and greener. She is happy, for sure, and free. But just so green, and distracting.
For the record, I drew her. (Only colored it in later in the computer.) I took a line-drawing class a year and a half ago, in which we spent a lot of time doing blind contour drawings. This is not gesture drawing, although it is similar in that one learns how to look and see quickly the thing they are drawing. Blind contour is all about lines. For months I saw the entire world in lines, thanks to this class. I kept noticing the outlines of people's noses, the outlines of my dog's paws. Not the shapes, but the lines.
But in the middle of this class, one of the nudes we drew was a woman whose sense of self and freedom were so fun to capture. The outlines of her body were not like all the other skinny models. It was fun to capture her. So she became my favorite. My green girl.
