The first 2 or 3 poses in a life drawing session are typically short, in our group we have 2 x 5 minutes and 1 x 10 minutes. When I was in Art College, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, we started with 30 -second poses and worked up to 2 minutes! That was serious discipline. These short poses give you a chance to isolate the important features in the subject, without getting distracted by details. I hadn’t worked with this model before and it was difficult getting his proportions right.
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