This drawing is done with charcoal, sanguine and white conte on colored charcoal paper. I like the solid look of this pose, almost statuesque. The details — faces, hands and feet definitely represent a challenge. Hopefully we will be studying these areas more in the class.
Gestural drawings convey the line of action and movement of a pose. Shown here are some very quick gestures of a male model done using a sanguine conte crayon on drawing paper. This model’s imaginative poses helped to inspire me — inspiration is sometimes hard to conjur following a long day’s work and hectic commute
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