Back to life classes after the half term break. The “proper” model failed to turn up (again – and it’s not always the same model, either) and (again) one of the tutor’s friends stood in. These “temps” are always really good, stand or sit very still and have interesting shapes, but – being amateurs – don’t take their clothes off. I don’t find drapery very exciting to draw, never have, and it doesn’t help my anatomy revision….
Still, I sat on the floor below the dais to get some interesting foreshortening, and then wandered around drawing the surface anatomy. Reviewing these last drawings today, I’m struck by the resemblance between the shapes underlying the upper arm and the landscape drawing posted earlier; how the light flows over the surface planes, delineating the underlying structure.
