Friday morning, model David put us through our paces with his advanced gesture pose series. He began with a standing pose to let us get our bearings.
Then he began to creatively complicate the poses.
After he warmed us up a bit, David began throwing inventive poses with heavy foreshortening and unusual perspectives. He said that these were poses he did for the more advanced students to challenge them to up their game, like this "shipwrecked" pose.
These curled up poses forced us to trust our eyes as we drew, and David quoted one of our favorite college drawing instructors who advised his students to, "Let your hand be an obedient servant of your eyes."
His poetic words rang true and helped us to focus on the process rather than the product.
We moved on to study drawing the feet. A 15-minute pose gave us time to study the structure of the feet. For the first 3 minutes of the pose, I had David wear footie socks to hide any details of his feet. We blocked in the shapes we saw, and then David took off the socks so we could finish our drawings with details.
We finished the session with an hour long pose (with model breaks). I used a 9XXB pencil on Charcoal paper.
Many thanks to model David for his creativity, inspiration and dedication to teaching the art of figure drawing!
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