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  2. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    Since the purpose of figure drawing classes is to learn how to draw humans of all kinds, male and female models of all ages, shapes, and ethnicities are usually sought, rather than selecting only beautiful models or those with "ideal" figures. Some instructors specifically seek to avoid the sort of models preferred by fashion photographers ...

  3. Figure study - Wikipedia

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    It also may be the earliest extant European drawing of a nude female model. Main article: figure drawing A figure study is a drawing or painting of the human body made in preparation for a more composed or finished work; [ 1 ] or to learn drawing and painting techniques in general and the human figure in particular.

  4. Model (art) - Wikipedia

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    Model (1914) drawing by Boris Kustodiev. ... 68–79, 102–115 Another popular narrative is the female model as a male artist's mistress, ...

  5. Study of a Kneeling Nude Girl for The Entombment - Wikipedia

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    It is a figure study made in preparation for his painting The Entombment, and is Michelangelo's only surviving study that was probably drawn from a nude female model. [1] It also may be the earliest extant European drawing of a nude female model. [1] The figure in the drawing relates to a woman seated in the lower left foreground of the painting.

  6. Donyale Luna - Wikipedia

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    The sketch was her first work for Harper's Bazaar, and included six other illustrations in the January 1965 issue. [33] Denzinger described drawing "a total of 40 brush-and-ink studies for that session, in a one-room studio apartment on Lexington Avenue. . . . I remember that the Bazaar editors came to the apartment with the clothes, and that ...

  7. Nude (art) - Wikipedia

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    The Dresden Venus of Giorgione (c. 1510), also drawing on classical models, showed a reclining female nude in a landscape, beginning a long line of famous paintings including the Venus of Urbino (Titian, 1538), and the Rokeby Venus (Diego Velázquez, c. 1650).

  8. Croquis - Wikipedia

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    Croquis drawing of a woman. Croquis drawing is quick and sketchy drawing of usually a live nude model. Croquis drawings are usually made in a few minutes, after which the model changes pose or leaves and another croquis is drawn. The word croquis comes from French and means simply "sketch".

  9. Helen Williams (model) - Wikipedia

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    Williams retired from modeling in 1970, but continued her career in fashion as a stylist. Helen also took up drawing and painting in her early model years which she continued long after her retirement. After a brief marriage to John Clayton Anderson some years earlier, she married Norm Jackson in 1977, whom she had met during her modeling days.