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More Figure drawing. This time conte pencils are awesome

Warning: This post contains drawings of nude figure models for academic purposes.

More figure drawing. One of them is more vine charcoal on warm gray paper, and the other is conte pencil on cool gray paper. The thing I like best about the latter, is that we drew the same figure, in the same pose, from three different angles on one page. This was fantastic! We had about 40 minutes to work on each figure. Yet even with much less time, I feel like these figures came out just as good as my other ones. Perhaps because having less time to work in, forces me to draw more loosely and with more energy and purpose. I really enjoyed using the white conte on the grey paper as well to bring out the lights and let the paper be a middle value. I think that my figures are starting to get more volume to them and though class is exhausting at times, I am excited to continue and see how my figures develop.