School of Visual Arts The MOCCA Medium

School of Visual Arts The MOCCA Medium

Uses of Life Drawing

 
In my Figure Drawing for Cartoonists and Inking Comics courses at SVA, we employ live models for a number of purposes beyond the study of anatomy. Some examples:

• one day, we have the model recline at oblique angles to study foreshortening
• another, she'll pose with fabric so we can study folds in relation to the body
• sometimes we turn out all the lights but one to study dramatic light
• on another occasion, we practice composing camera shots, coordinating figure and background
  
  
  
  

• often we take turns requesting poses for our comics in progress, using the occasion to practice...
• ... ink wash...
• ...or to practice building images from non-photo blue through to finished inks, permitting imaginative transformations of a pose:
• and I've shown several examples of models performing stories.
• of course, we keep skeletons in the closet to study what's under it all. 

SVA has the best models. Come see for yourself. The info session is May 17 at 6:30 pm. Classes start the first week in June.