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  2. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    A life drawing is a drawing of the human figure, traditionally nude, from observation of a live model. Creating life drawings, or life studies , in a life class , has been a large element in the traditional training of artists in the Western world since the Renaissance.

  3. Figure study - Wikipedia

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    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. By preference, figure studies are done from a live model, but may also include the use of other references [2] and the imagination of ...

  4. Model (art) - Wikipedia

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    The role of art models has changed through different eras as the meaning and importance of the human figure in art and society has changed. [ 97 ] [ 100 ] Nude modeling, nude art and nudity in general have at times been the subject to social disapproval, at least by some elements in society.

  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. Model (person) - Wikipedia

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    A female model posing on a typical studio shooting set. A model is a person with a role either to display commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as an artist's model. Modelling ("modeling" in American English) entails using one's body to represent someone else's body or someone's artistic imagination of a ...

  7. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    One version of the proportions used in modern figure drawing is: [4] An average person is generally 7-and-a-half heads tall (including the head). An ideal figure, used when aiming for an impression of nobility or grace, is drawn at 8 heads tall. A heroic figure, used in the depiction of gods and superheroes, is eight-and-a-half heads tall. Most ...

  8. Female body shape - Wikipedia

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    The British Fashion Model Agents Association (BFMA) says that female models should be at least 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall and proportionately around 34–24–34" (86–61–86 cm). [41] Laws "aimed at preventing anorexia by stopping the promotion of inaccessible ideals of beauty" have been introduced in a number of European countries, [ 42 ] to ...

  9. Category:Female models by nationality - Wikipedia

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    South Korean female models (234 P) South Sudanese female models (15 P) Soviet female models (3 P) Spanish female models (1 C, 107 P) Sri Lankan female models (20 P)