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  2. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    An artist's mannequin is often used to train beginner artists on a standard set of proportions while developing their use of perspective and posture. Artists take a variety of approaches to drawing the human figure. They may draw from live models or from photographs, [2] from mannequin puppets, or from memory and imagination. Most instruction ...

  3. Sitting and Smiling - Wikipedia

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    Sitting and Smiling is an endurance art performance by Benjamin Bennett. In a typical performance, Bennett looks into a video camera which is recording him while sitting and smiling motionless for four hours. Bennett uploaded his first Sitting and Smiling video on July 28, 2014. Over the next several years, he uploaded similar videos at a rate ...

  4. Model (art) - Wikipedia

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    An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art. As an occupation, modeling requires the often strenuous ' physical work ' of holding poses for the required length of time, the 'aesthetic work' of performing a variety of interesting ...

  5. Blind contour drawing - Wikipedia

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    Blind contour drawing is a drawing exercise, where an artist draws the contour of a subject without looking at the paper. The artistic technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The Natural Way to Draw, and it is further popularized by Betty Edwards as "pure contour drawing" in The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.

  6. Photo-referencing - Wikipedia

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    In the comic book industry, photo-referencing is criticized by some as a technique used to disguise the weakness of the artist's technical capability. Award-winning comic creator Alison Bechdel [3] also uses extensive photo reference, frequently photographing herself in the poses of the characters she draws in order to convey body language accurately.

  7. Concept art - Wikipedia

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    Concept art is a form of visual art used to convey an idea for use in film, video games, animation, comic books, television shows, or other media before it is put into the final product. [1] The term was used by the Walt Disney Animation Studios as early as the 1930s. [ 2 ]

  8. Drawing - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.

  9. Creative visualization - Wikipedia

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    Creative visualization is the cognitive process of purposefully generating visual mental imagery, with eyes open or closed, [1] [2] simulating or recreating visual perception, [3] [4] in order to maintain, inspect, and transform those images, [5] consequently modifying their associated emotions or feelings, [6] [7] [8] with intent to experience a subsequent beneficial physiological ...