Human figure drawings

Wow! Two posts on the same day! Three posts within the last 48 hours! Russ should go skiing with his coworkers more often (shh....I'm kidding!).

Here are some drawings I did in the life drawing sessions of the human figure class. We had a different model every week. My favorite was a tall lady who was also a Yoga instructor. The poses she was able to do were jaw-dropping and very intriguing to reproduce on paper. My other favorite was an over-weight middle-aged man. While his poses weren't exceptional, his body form was interesting to draw. We also had men in their 50s/60s, women in their 40s and different sizes and shapes. None of the models had what's considered to be conventionally perfect body. I enjoyed drawing all of them and found beauty in all of their forms.

The poses were in segments of 30 seconds, one minute, two minutes and five minutes. The 30-second poses were mostly warms-up in the beginning of the class, where I was only able to draw very sketchy and simple forms. The five-minute poses were the ones where I was able to add more details - the musculature, fingers and toes, facial forms and even props on occasion (you'd be surprised some of the stuff the models brought in!) All of the drawings here are of five-minute poses.

I used Prismacolor pencils. What it means is that every stroke I made was permanent; there was no erasing of mistakes. So it's not unusual to find multiple strokes along the same line.