Life drawing can be very technical, with all the measuring, checking and super-smooth shading techniques. One break-away exercise from this is very short life poses. I’ve put a few recent 5-minute sketches into this post.
Half a figure is really enough to cope with for these short poses, essentially capturing the gesture of the pose and if there’s time, some spontaneous construction and articulation. If i’m lucky with how the speed sketch has gone, I have time for some basic tone.
Of course it is possible to grab a quick snapshot of the entire pose, but this is more difficult and can just become a useless scribble.
Tags: Figure and Life Drawing, Gestures, Quick Sketching, Short Poses