samedi 30 avril 2016

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.

Drawing from imagination is often praised because of the expression it encourages at the same time criticized for its inaccuracies experienced by the artists lack of knowledge or limited memory to visualize the figure of a human. Experience of these artists by use of other methods largely influences them on how the effectiveness of approaching this method.

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.

Different artists are known to use different material in putting up their pieces such as charcoal, pencils, and other media known for this art. According to the modern artists, twisting proportions is seen as a way of putting more emphasis on the poses of the different models used. Having been invented decades ago, this form of art has considerably grown popular and keeps growing even bigger with each passing day.




About the Author: