Early Summer, I took a workshop to study Prud'hon. The male nude one is the one I did in the workshop. I learned how to stain the paper and what to use etc. Then I came home and tried by myself. I have some bits of watercolour papers, so I used one of them. And tried tried tried, push and pull, push and pull.... Then finally gave up. The paper I used was waaaaaay too rough for this exercise. I have very little patient to continue... XD
