Life Drawing, Without the Life —

About a year ago, I got kind of pissed at myself that everything in my sketchbook that didn't suck ass was from reference. So I went out and bought a copy of Bridgman's Drawing From Life, in hopes that it would be a good first step towards breaking myself of the need to reference every little thing. Plus I also thought it would motivate me to get out and take some life drawing classes.

Of course what I ended up doing was copying the illustrations in the book in a vain attempt to understand his system and never doing any actual life drawing. Sigh.