When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Patrick J Jones Figure drawing is a fundamental skill for artists, but one of the hardest ...

A few minutes before today's advanced figure drawing class begins, students slowly file into a classroom at Ringling College of Art and Design. Like chefs preparing their stations, the students go ...

Drawing the human figure is not like riding a bicycle. “I was a little rusty,” Southbridge artist Cathleen Moore said, when asked why she recently joined a local life-drawing group. “There’s a warm-up ...

“Capture the balance of this pose,” Heddi Siebel says as she walks around the room. “Get the back, get the weight.” Students stand around the model, Callista Womick, in a semicircle, facing easels ...

They get together to chit-chat, stimulate their minds and share life experiences. And to improve their figure drawing skills, too. Since 1924, people have gathered in Casper to paint and draw from ...

Visitors to a recent art show at Dixie State University were greeted with a disclaimer. “Parents may choose to preview this exhibit before their children enter. Thank you.” Obviously a message like ...

This study examined the effects of two- and three-dimensional visual referents upon selected aspects of representational human figure drawing by first-year public high school students. Three intact ...

This is Part 3 of Tales of a Lecturer and Director, which continues to explain what it’s like to ascend through the ranks of academia. Here I follow in the footsteps of a long-serving Roman Catholic ...

BELFAST, Maine (WABI) - From prehistoric Venus figurines to Michelangelo’s David, artists have tried to capture the natural beauty of the human form for thousands of years. In Belfast, a weekly class ...