A discussion on life drawing, anatomy & art has just started on the Drawing Research Network:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A1=ind…
Contributers, so far, are enthusiastically in support of observational drawing from life as a valuable activity at all levels. Well, they/we would be, wouldn’t they/we? The drawing versus no-drawing debate is probably set to continue for ever, a bit like the “painting is dead” debate. I don’t think there’s any doubt that you don’t need to be able to produce Victorian Art School style drawings in order to be an artist, and probably the academic, 5H pencil, drawing from plaster casts for a year method of teaching did enough to kill off drawing for ever. The fact that it didn’t do so shows that the need to draw, or make marks, is deeply ingrained in the human brain.
