By Leah Herman

Today Paul and I went to the Jacksonville Zoo and I got to draw a giraffe from life for the first time.

By Leah Herman

It’s Figure Drawing Friday again, so here you go:

By Leah Herman

Hey everybody, meet Amy. She is your drawing for today.

By Leah Herman

Here’s a sneak peek at the center spread. I had a lot of fun coming up with these.

By Leah Herman

And more, if you’re interested:

By Leah Herman

I’m burning out. Not on the drawings; these are relaxing. Just got a lot of other work to do.

By Leah Herman

This is a sketchbook that has handmade paper and is covered in hand-tooled, hand-stitched leather. God, I love the paper so much. Thanks, Paul.

By Leah Herman

First essay for Shelf Life class due tomorrow, but I have to finish tonight if I want to hang out with my friends. Ugh.

By Leah Herman

Today is the first of the Figure Drawing Fridays series, because there is figure drawing on Fridays  in Fine Arts B and this offers me a nice opportunity to learn and keep up skill. So expect to see more figures every Friday unless I have another hellweek.

By Leah Herman

Everything can be read, every surface and silence, every breath and every vacancy, every eddy and current, every body and its absence, every darkness every light, each cloud and knife, each finger and tree, every backwater, every crevice and hollow, each nostril, tendril and crescent, every whisper, every whimper, each laugh and every blue feather, [...]