Sitting nude – side pose

Sitting nude

Gestures

There’s a plethora of drawing studios around town, some of which have met for decades, where for a nominal fee you have access to a professional figure model (unionized only in SF) for a 3-4 hour stretch at a time. Artists there follow a consistent protocol of one minute warm up sketches followed by 10-15 minute poses, then 30 minutes and perhaps an hour.

It’s pretty amazing to see what can happen in the space of a minute, that there can be so much character captured in just getting the gesture down. After having worked for only a minute 15 minutes is sooooo much longer.

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