Drawing Outside the Drawing Studio

Drawing with Students

Ball Point Pen on Paper, 8.8x5.5"

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This is from last spring's life drawing class. Our model is on the right and the woman on left is one of my students. One can draw from the nude model consistently but it is difficult to take nude figure drawings out of the realm of study. The history of study is just too long and so thoroughly explored.

Eventually one must think about the figure outside the drawing studio and begin to consider the clothed figure. After all, in most situations, you are not just going to happen to come across someone who happens to be naked away from home. So the object of doing this was to begin to draw the clothed model and the context in which model and the people around her interact. 

It was also an exercise in drawing quickly as the people around the model were to be included as well. Context can tell a great deal about the person or persons depicted