Seeing him work helped me to see that taking your time on a drawing is key to improvement. One being Douglas Malone, an anatomy teacher. There are a few instructors in college that I feel had the most influence on my art. Seeing his drawings reminded me again of how important those single lines can be. I especially loved his foreshortened poses because I know how difficult they can be to draw. I absolutely loved his pencil strokes and how they went every which way, but at the same time they worked so well together.

I was taken aback by the beauty of his drawings and also very surprised by the similarities that our work had since I had never seen his work before. I actually had no idea who Paul Cadmus was at the time and so I decided to look him up. A few years back someone posted a comment on my work and said, 'It's Paul Cadmus reborn!'. I am amazed at how much it has helped me. I wanted to gather information in order to help me at what I do. I began posting online because I wanted feedback from other people on a daily basis. The only way I felt I could increase my knowledge was to keep practicing, and so that I did. Once I was out of college I was literally on my own with this art thing. Then I realized that the only way I could really understand and make my drawings better was to draw every day and practice. The painstaking work involved in learning to draw this was tremendous and at times I felt so overwhelmed by it that I wanted to give up. It became my primary focus to understand just what the muscles of the body do and what each one of their purposes were. Soon I became fascinated by drawing the human figure.Д«ut it wasn't until I took an anatomy class that I truly fell in love with drawing musculature. In certain drawings I'd see pencil strokes wrap around figures the same way a mummy is wrapped, and then I'd see other drawings with small hatch marks in direction with the planes of the face or body. I was able to see what the masters were trying to accomplish with each pencil stroke. The first time I drew a master copy I realized how much it would help my own art. It wasn't until art college that I became familiar with artists I had never even heard of, I felt so naive! The ones whose drawings I feel inspired mine the most were John Singer Sargent, Albrecht Durer, Frederic Lord Leighton, and of course, Leonardo da Vinci. I wanted to find out exactly how a drawing like this was achieved, what amounts of what color charcoal to use, and ways to see the paper as midtones. I had never seen this technique before and was intrigued by it. When I was in college I was introduced to the drawing method of using white chalk on a toned paper and instantly fell in love with it.

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