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We have collected together a selection of fun resources on drawing the figure that we hope will inspire students to tackle this challenging subject. The activities encourage pupils to draw from live poses by their classmates (and a dog!) and to consider how they would draw both a still and moving figure. They also have an opportunity to express what it feels like to be inside their own bodies, through wire drawings/sculptures. Finally, we include a link to a series of projects by artist Hester Berry that discuss ways to approach life drawing from the model.
First Steps
Life Drawing- getting it right
A resource to help students practice their life drawing skills: one quick, five line drawing to get students looking and filling the whole sheet and a longer life study, where students are encouraged to add and cover ‘wrong’ lines with white paper and let their drawings ‘grow’