More On Male And Female Nude Drawings

By Betty Mitchell


Art is a sector that has been on the move all over the world. It requires one to be very creative to meet the needs of the consumers. Art involves a lot of time, hard work and dedication. An example includes male and female nude drawings. This involves drawing the human form in its various shapes and bearing by use of drawing media. The level of presentation can be from highly detailed to loose and expressive sketches.

Life drawing is whereby an artist draws the figure of the human by observing it as a live model. As for the figure drawing, it comprises of studying the figure to be drawn as one prepares for the more finished work like painting. As for figure drawing, its considered as the most difficult encounter of every artist and the entire courses are dedicated to the subject. Human figure can be expressed in the form of portraits, illustration, sculpture and many more fields.

Different approaches are used by artists whenever they want to draw a human figure. Some of them use imagination and memory or skeleton models, photographs and live models. Courses will mainly focus on the life drawing. Since the invention of photography, photography reference is common though its condemned for bringing up flat images which tend not to capture vibrant features of a subject.

Imagination drawing is often commended due to the expression it brings about and also condemned for the inaccuracies that occur due to the lack of knowledge from the artist or little memory in visualizing the human figure. How effective an artist approaches this method is determined by the experience they have on using other methods.

While developing images, most artists will shift their focus on shapes formed by the interplay of the light and dark values on the outside the body. Others approach it anatomically where they begin by approximating the internal skeleton of the body by laying the internal organs and musculature and cover this shapes with the skin and finally with clothes. The study of ones internal structure is usually involved in this technique.

Artists may also loosely construct a body using geometric shapes to resemble the body being drawn. Cylinders for the torso and spheres for cranium are some of the examples. These cylinders will be refined to resemble human forms. Artists will use different ways when drawing nudes and its all dependent on what they do best.

Those working without visual references, there are proportions globally recommended in figure drawing and one should be aware that an average person is generally seven and a half heads tall. The illustration can be conducted to students using paper plates to visually demonstrate the length of their bodies.

When it comes to the actual drawing, artists use pencils, charcoal sticks and others to draw on paper. The modern and contemporary artists can choose to exaggerate or distort proportions to emphasize the perceived mood of these models pose. Nude female and male drawing was invented many years ago.




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