All these pieces are titled when they are complete. Look at her, she’s confident. As she should be.
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I like to distort bodies. The idea here is to fill the page with the figure.
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The washy inking gives this piece a lovely atmosphere.
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This is a very early success at figure modeling. This model is featured several times on this page. I liked her.
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On very quick sketches, I often put the model on the same page. I prefer to use good paper so this approach is efficient. These two figures would be the result of two or five minute poses. The juxtaposition of the characters evokes submission and dominance in a sort of intense serenity.
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owned by The Honorable Chris Gorman
Another quick pose that ended up a keeper. This pose was likely two minutes in which I did the work in blue. The pose is wonderfully dynamic and the turned head makes the viewer a participant in the scene. What has she been waiting to say? Or hear?
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This guy looked like the image of Jesus that Western civilization has popularized. His pinky separated from the rest of his fingers as it rested on his thigh such that his pinky ends up looking like a thumb. In other words he would have two right hands. So doing some religious sorcery, I came up with this title.
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Again doing multiple quick poses on a single page. Again the juxtaposition of the the poses is evocative. They are clearly brothers and they clearly have feelings.
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Two quick sketches made complete by positioning. The notion of rivalry comes from the sly grin on the left figure and personal bias on my part.
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He is playing a statue on the stage in a play who gets up forty-five minutes into the show and scares the shit out of everyone.
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This is some early work.
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Because of my ego, I sometimes thought the models were flirting with me. She was not winking but it is something of a come hither pose.
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The original motivation behind distorting the figure is compositional and the bonus how that shapes what the figure suggests to the viewer. I feel she is unbothered.
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Again I see a certain serenity in this figure.
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A wonderful statuesque dynamic pose.
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This was a quick pose so I used a smaller page. It’s a great pose (and the following pose is too) that would be well worth further exploration.
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I was looking down at the page scrambling to complete the previous pose and looked up and she was looking me straight in the eyes. It is definitely something to have a beautiful nude stranger stare at you as you run your eyes over their body. Another great pose I would like to take more time with.
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A figure posed with a staff often gives an epic feeling to the image. She surveils her command.
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The jokey title belies but also implies a thoughtful pose.
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The atmosphere of quick poses has a nice extension. Although these pieces would not be complete by the end of class, I tended to complete them in the spirit of quickness from home.
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This is such a subtly strong pose. It is an honor to observe these models who have such great physical presence and sense of what the observer sees. They enhance the work so much.
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Another wonderful and dynamic pose.
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This image would be so different without the distortions.
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Being freely inspired and purely instinctive is a lot of fun.
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This image and the next suggest opposite emotions from the figures while being the same pose. I think that is fascinating.
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A slight difference in the arch of the back and a face less buried makes the pose peaceful.
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Intentionally Matissey.
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An intense pose by a very strong model. In most cases I would have done more with this piece but I liked it so much that I didn’t want to risk screwing it up. A solid decision.
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I really like the interplay of her hand and arms with the chair on top of this being a beautiful pose overall.
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this piece is ethereal.
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This is an early piece of a pose that I really like.
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This is a kind of magic that happens when you overlay seven short poses onto one page.
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Owned By the Venerable Sarah O'Rourke
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