Jason

Five-minute quick sketches and a two-and-a-half hour pose. Aaron helped to group and simplify my shapes and shading once the pose ended.

When I sat down to continue the long pose from last week, I looked at the model, then at my pad of newsprint, and immediately I could tell that the proportions in the drawing I finished last week were way off. I've thankfully grown past the point of getting too precious with my sketches, so I grabbed my kneaded eraser and wiped out everything that wasn't working well, and quickly redrew the features as accurately as I could. In my opinion, it's a much better drawing as a result. I've learned that you absolutely cannot be afraid to obliterate anything that doesn't look right, even if you slaved over it for hours on end. It's almost always better to try to fix a mistake than to just let it stay, because when all is said and done, a piece is only as strong as its weakest part.