Rob Hopkins

Drawing courtesy of Valerie Pezeron. Copyright Valoche Designs 2011. Do not reproduce without permission

This image has been revised and I am pretty happy with the final result!

Work in progress- Spiritual Life Drawing

Image courtesy of Valerie Pezeron. Copyright protected 2010. No reproductions without permission.

“I am here in great distress and with great physical strain, and have no friends of any kind, nor do I want them; and I do not have enough time to eat as much as I need; my joy and my sorrow, my repose are these discomforts.”- Michelangelo
Sometimes when I create, I am so consumed by passion I feel like the master. Michelangelo’s ‘unsociableness’ has been seen as the typical attitude of what was known in the Renaissance as the vir melanchonicus. I can be so absorbed in a solitary contemplative state, wholly wrapped up in my art, that involvement in creative activity is transformed into suffering.