Starting your figure drawing with basic shapes makes it easier to draw more sophisticated lines on top. Here, I've drawn the ...

One of an artist's greatest tools to communicate life in a drawing is gesture. It's the movement from one form to another. That's why it follows the natural flow of human anatomy. The first place to ...

Challenge yourself to draw any pose in just 5 minutes with this timed figure drawing practice! Boost your speed, improve your accuracy, and learn to capture the essence of the human form in no time.

Several dozen local artists had the rare chance to draw a nude model recently at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse. Open Figure Drawing of Syracuse holds two such events every year. Model Marina ...

I tested a highly flexible pose figure to see if it actually helps improve dynamic figure drawing. This quick comparison shows how much it can change the way you sketch poses. Is it worth using in ...

The thought of stepping in front of a roomful of artists as a figure drawing model for the first time was nerve-wracking for Michelle Long. She recalls nervously rehearsing for her modeling debut in ...