Life Drawings - Figures and Gestures
For several months, I practiced life and gesture drawing to improve my understanding of human poses. I would start by warming up with loose gestures, 25 seconds each, then 1 minute each, then some 5 minutes each. After that, I'd get right into replicating a pose in a way that is slightly exaggerated for appeal but remained anatomically believable. (I also ended up doing some with some crazy exaggerated proportions for fun.)
All drawings done with pencil on paper and collaged digitally.
Figure studies from live models. Each of these were done in ~12 minutes or less.
For these, I leaned into caricature/exaggeration, experimenting with each model's proportions. Each ~12 minutes or less.
Some looser warmup poses, just to get the idea of the model's poses. Each ~5 minutes or less.
The initial warmup gestures I would do before every life drawing session. Just to get some gestures, loosen up. Each done in 2 minutes or less.