We had a new model last Friday in Osher Figure Drawing class named Jamie. She's quite skilled and creative, and she helped us to sharpen our ability to draw foreshortening.
We started with two-minute continuous line drawings of Jamie's expressive gestures. Her poses were alive and sensitive, and we could see her background as a dancer shining through in her movements.
We moved on to two-minute foreshortening gestures. Our goals were to
1) Find a foreshortened limb to focus on.
2) Draw the bone structure underneath the foreshortened limb and supporting area,
noticing the shortened appearance of the foreshortened bit.
3) Draw the outer body around the bones.
We built Jamie's foreshortened body from her skeleton up.
We were warmed up and ready to deal with more complexity. Jamie took an hour-long pose, with breaks of course, and we delved into expressing her pose, foreshortening and all.
Many thanks to model Jamie. I could see the way her creativity inspired my students to draw lively, fresh compositions.
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