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2. Gesture drawing - Wikipedia

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   Typical situations involve an artist drawing a series of poses taken by a model in a short amount of time, often as little as 10 seconds, or as long as 5 minutes. Gesture drawing is often performed as a warm-up for a life drawing session, but is a skill that may be cultivated for its own sake.

3. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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   At the beginning of a figure drawing session, the model is often requested to make a series of brief poses in rapid succession. These are called gesture poses, and are typically one to three minutes each. Gesture drawing is a warm-up exercise for many artists, although some artists sketch out the gesture as the first step in every figure ...

4. Model (art) - Wikipedia

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   An art model 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 poses, and the ...

5. 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.

6. Fanny Eaton - Wikipedia

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   It was during this period of Fanny Eaton's life as mother and new wife that she began modelling, both for the Royal Academy of Arts School of Painting (where she was paid 5 shillings for each modelling session, with her maximum recorded schedule reaching three sessions in a single day [4]), for the Pre-Raphaelites, and for other less well-known artists of the period.

7. 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.