Firmly into study of the whole leg now, from the pelvis down. Tonight’s model happened to be a young lady with an athletic build, which is always a nice bonus when looking for specific anatomical features. You can’t see the ilio-tibial band on just anybody.
I think the legs might have been the most successful drawing of the night. The drawing from the back isn’t actually a bad likeness, and I got distracted by her triceps, which I haven’t studied yet, so I couldn’t get as nuanced about the shading. Overall, the lines in her face are too dark. I have to get that under control. For the last one, I was trying to think more about a constructionist approach with cylinders and so forth and trying to get the shape of the abdomen nice and round; didn’t have enough time to do extremities or a likeness. Any of these poses could have been done a lot nicer if we had had 3 or 6 hours (or 30) instead of 40 minutes, but we know that already.
