A self portrait I drew this evening.

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34. I think you should take a life drawing class

with live nude models. You can really hone your skills and educate your eye. In the early 1980s I took classes in the local junior college. They are three hour classes usually held on Saturday and established artists go to them to practice their skills.

My interest was in depicting their faces so while other attendees concentrated on the bodies I decided to tackle facial likenesses. As you probably know it’s very difficult to render accurate portraiture that actually looks like the model, but it really paid off for me. Recently, after 40 years of having them in my closet I took them out and really looked at them. They are pretty good, so every so often I post one on DU.