As we all possess a body, we think we know what it looks like. When we draw it, we bring to bear that prior knowledge and we draw that rather than the exactitude of the arm or leg that’s in front of ...

OG Abel (Abel Izaguirre), “Love & Hate” (August 19, 2012), graphite on paper in LA Liber Amicorum / Graffiti Black Book (Los Angeles, 2012), Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. Gift of Ed and ...

Instructor Darren Kerr talks to Sabina Grogan about the proportions of the human face during a life drawing class at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...

The artwork on this month’s cover of ImagineFX magazine is an example of one of the studies and sketches I do every morning to better myself as an artist. I drew this figure with the goal of working ...

PORT TOWNSEND — “Queering the Body,” a figure drawing class series for queer, gender non-conforming and trans folk, will start April 10 at Northwind Art, the nonprofit art school at Fort Worden State ...

Most artists have spent hours studying and drawing the human body. Even if their current work is abstract or filled with trees and clouds, students of art are still trained to take classes in life ...

Ideals and masters : the nude in Italy, 1530-1800 / William Breazeale -- International currents : the nude in the low countries, 1550-1750 / Susan Anderson -- Académie, académie, étude : figural ...

Designed for aspiring artists, this video covers the fundamental aspects of beginning anatomy drawing. The presentation highlights key methods for observing and depicting the structure of the human ...