For a second sketch with my virtual student, I sketched Sprout when he lay right next to me.Again, I stressed working fast and furious. Sprout has a strange way of lying like a human when he sleeps. His back legs are not foled up under him like most dogs. Instead. he lays with his back legs extended. I think this must ne rather uncomfortable, but he can lay like this for hours.
Light was low in the late afternoon, so I made the whole sketch rather dark. There is no pure white, instead everything is in muted greys. I timed each sketch based on how ling Sprout remained in that particular position. There is a sense of panic that the moment might be lost that is never achieved by working from a photo. My student was unfortunately sketching from a photo and got a decent result, but there is a stiffness that always surfaces from the photo real.
Today my film COVID Dystopia is being screened for the first time at an international film festival.