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You learn how to draw different texture because a human form has a hard bone. It has soft flesh, it has hard but hard in a different way, muscle, tendons. So, what it is training you to do is to be able to visually decipher what you’re looking at. And that’s why it is the best way to learn how to draw. And that’s why people throughout history have hired models, nude models, and they work directly from life. The other aspect of that too, is working from life. I know that there are a lot of people that work from photography. For the expediency of photography and perhaps also, because it might even be cheaper to just hire somebody for a photo shoot than to actually draw from life.
What to do? Well, it’s interesting we are now posting something on our Bright light Fine Art website, and it’s called , C-R-O- Q- U- I -S cafe. It is all of these professional models, female, and male, and they pose live, but it’s on film. A lot of people are going there and actually it’s somewhat of a substitute. Especially if you’ve been working from life. Again it’s the kind of thing that you can look at something 3D and understand how to convey that onto a flat surface. And that’s what you want to be able to do as an artist. You can also draw, just the nude of course in this way. But you can draw still like objects. You can draw trees. An artist can go out into nature and the trees are moving.
You know, if you’re like me here in Taos, I could go down the road and see a horse or a cow or donkeys at my neighbor’s yard. And anyway, so the more you can draw from live, your own pet, child. But in anything that you can do to work from life is your optimum thing. But Croquis Cafe is a lovely resource and that’s one reason that we’re posting it here. It does give you access to nude models who are actually posing in real time. So that’s much better than a photograph.


















