Figure Drawing Update: David

Our scheduled model last Friday came down with a fever and was unable to work for our Osher class, so David stepped in with creative poses and strength to save the day.  We wish our model a speedy recovery and will plan to have him back when he is well.

We did several exercises to prepare us for dealing with foreshortening, including wrapped line drawings,  in which we followed the cross contours of David's body with our charcoals to help us to understand the way that body parts stack up visually as they come forward in space or recede.

We also turned our charcoals on their sides to create mass drawings.  This technique encourages us to draw the whole body, including the inner structure and shape of the body mass.

We finished the class session with a long pose.

David and I recently sorted through the deep stack of drawings in our living room Zoom art studio.  This is a sampling of what we have created during the last few weeks!