We had a wonderful exploration of the skeletal structure last Friday with model David. For a warm-up, David posed with a life-sized resin skeleton we have affectionately named "Skelly Bones."
I asked my students to take the first minute of the 3-minute pose to lay in a stick drawing for David's skeletal structure in one color, then draw a loose gesture over top of that structure with a contrasting color for the remaining time.
Though I didn't draw Skelly Bones, David set up the skeleton to mirror his own pose for each of the standing gestures, and this guided us through the structure in David's form.
After the gestures, we moved on to study the legs, and practiced with laying in the structure, then making a gesture drawing, checking our measurements, and adding a bit of shading and detail, like the toenails.
We finished up with the long pose.
Many thanks to David for filling in on a snow day when our scheduled model couldn't get to the farm studio!
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