Lesson 5 of the Love Life Drawing beginning figure drawing course asks us to drill on drawing a 3D rib cage volume a hundred times. “Until you’re kind of sick of it, frankly,” Kenzo says. And I am sick of it. I spent a week drawing all these. On occasion I got cross-eyed enough I had to draw something else just to clear the palette. But I got there, and hopefully this experience will help in subsequent figure drawing. We’ll see, I guess!
One of the ways I tried to keep things fresh was by varying the tools I used. You’ll see a great deal of pen experimentation — some successful, some not — through the set before I eventually just settled back into using the Sinnix dry brush.
If you count them up, there’s actually 101 rib cages here. On the first sheet, I didn’t have a concrete plan for how to pack them in and wound up with an extra.
