Male and Female Nudes

I used to teach life drawing and usually I drew along with the students. They seemed to like that as they could see after the class how I’d treated the subject they were drawing. Many students like to draw on white paper. I used tinted paper for these three figure studies to show that it can produce a more dynamic drawing.

This is a pastel drawing  of a seated model who always liked to wear her spectacles while she was posing.
I often used to tease her about this saying that I thought she was shy and didn’t like posing nude.
Actually she was anything but shy. She used to emerge from the changing room nude and stayed that way
until the whole session was over. She even had her coffee break in the nude.

 

Male models I found rather difficult to find, but occasionally I managed to get one, I should think only about 20% of the time. This one was particularly good and was willing to try some quite difficult and uncomfortable poses when I asked him to do so. The pose below was one of his more comfortable ones. This was because I only gave the class 20 minutes to do the drawing.

Male nude seated. I did this in sanguine pencil on grey paper.

 

Finally, one of my better female models. She was slim with a very good figure and regularly worked out at the gym. This is one of her relaxed poses leaning against a board covered with drapery.

Rear view of reclining female nude. Sanguine and white pastel on bronze tinted paper.

 

 

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