Drawing Week: January pt. 1

Here's a drawing from Monday's life class:


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We had two 40 minute sessions with this pose. I worked on the above drawing for about half an hour. This was preceded by several studies I made of the pose in an attempt to work out the proportions and perspective:



Studies like these were drawn quite quick (5 or 6 mins), while others were scribbled out in barely over a minute:



I used each drawing to study different aspects of the pose.