Sketchbook – theotherjeffrogers.com

After a bit of a layoff, I didn’t want to try too hard today, probably because I didn’t want to fail too hard. When you go back into the gym after a break, you don’t immediately return to the same weight you left off at—you start back at a lighter weight and work your way back up.

Short on paper and needing a new pad, I scrounged through some old mostly-full sketchbooks looking for blank pages to fill, or, as in the first drawing here, pages with content that I could draw over. The second sketch, a reclining pose, began as a search for big shapes and abstract lines but it teetered off into basic sketching, probably because I paid too much attention to the feet. What I like most about Willem De Kooning: the moment when he said from now on, no more feet.