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Sylvia Evans

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PJGood start Denise, I think this is a bit "long". It's the head that dictates the length it should fit eight times into the body. The arms when down by the side should just be touching the bottom of the torso. A life drawing class teaches such a lot I bet you have one close to you. I spent the afternoon drawing the next Welsh author with a bark. Constance .  She has a book on Amazon.  A neighbour has taken up the doggy challenge though she is using photographs.  So I did my version in pencil.. 

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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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A touch more heft in the hips, Denise - the slimmest of us (um: that's not me...) need a bit of bulk in the pelvic area to support the superstructure.  But the proportions are otherwise fine - and yes, the human body does more or less equal 8 heads, leaving room for individual variance.   (I'm told I need to lose around 4lbs around the middle, by the way, to help get my blood pressure down: so if anyone knows of a good diet - I've already sorrowfully cut out the cream, crisps, chocolate, and stave off the hunger pangs with bananas; next to go will be the gin, which is suprisingly fattening [too many double gins/Give the ladies double chins/Don't have any more, Mrs Moore].) Now where were we - ah yes: Sylvia, that there dawg - there is a mouth there somewhere, I assume?  He looks a bit like my landlord's border terrier - 14 years old, and entirely fed up with the heat: her mouth is a bit hard to find as well, but it's there, with teeth, when called upon to register a protest - she objects strongly to being trodden on - or to chew any discarded morsel of food she can cadge.  

Denise Cat

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Thanks Robert, I did a few more last night, just getting the feel of sketching quick at the body proportions at different angles. You BP, eat sensibly, smaller portions, a little more walking and treat yourself to the things you do like, occasionally.  Sylvia, love the dawg.

Sylvia Evans

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So right it's a moutless  dawg...will have to add it right now.  I about to give it to her owner as a pressie.  Funny little creature called Constance . She is a cross between a Chihuahua  and a Shizu....don't know how to spell that...Shit Sue....the photo dose t show a mouth either ...bet she is thin and doesn't bark much....There you go Robert....a diet plan. Sew up your mouth..Robert is right re your skinny drawing Denise .  Off to draw a mouth..

Sylvia Evans

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Constance can now munch , thank you Robert .
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Gillian Cooke

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Constance looks a wee character! I was in the Stromness museum across from my house yesterday and did this sketch whilst there

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Sylvia Evans

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Nice one Gillian...skulls are great to draw.  Yes  Constance is a wee character .

Sylvia Evans

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Not even had my G&T yet..

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Marjorie Firth

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Two large G&T’s, a “caprese” salad and a Magnum to follow ( not the wine). What more could you ask for? Diet always starts tomorrow. But I’m treating myself because I have a potential root canal job in the offing….
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Gillian Cooke

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Always Marjorie! 

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Great skull Gillian, I liked sketching them when I tried. I've been working on the body sketch, I'm getting there with it, you can see lots of rubbing out and changes. I do like the shape it is starting to come along at. I'll keep messing with it tomorrow. I've been thinking it may cause an eyebrow when I do it but I think I have learned in art, that, you can step out of boundaries, if that's what you want to do. Art isn't about a square box, it can be, whatever you want it to be.
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Gillian Cooke

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Denise breaking boundaries is what art is all about if you are brave enough to just do it! Go girl! I have just picked up some tinted charcoal pencils and had a shot at a life model pose
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