Figure Drawing Update: Duo Modeling Session

 

We finished up the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Figure Drawing class with a duo session featuring models Kathryn & David.  

We began with 5 minute gesture poses to get warmed up. Before intertwining in complicated poses, David and Kathryn gave us standing front and back poses to help us get down their proportional differences.

Having 5 minutes to capture two figures pushes an artist to find the essential contour and structural lines. Focusing on the negative space between the figures helps to simplify the many arms and legs.

After gestures, we moved on to a 20 minute pose.

And finished the class with this 55-minute pose.  Of course, David & Kathryn took a stretch break in the middle. Many thanks to David and Kathryn for their creative poses and inspiration!