Drawing male nude free#

While the subject makes many students drift off to sleep - or at least wish they could - the mere mention of a muscle or bone makes me perk up. People tend to shake their heads or roll their eyes at me when I talk about my interest in anatomy. When it arrived, I couldn’t wait to get started. I immediately ordered a used copy of Anatomy: A Complete Guide for Artistsby Joseph Sheppard. Quick Poses is another helpful website, as is Sketch Daily, which includes images for individual body parts as well as the complete body.įrom the start, I knew I would need more than online images. Another site that I’ll be visiting regularly is “ Figure and Gesture Drawing” in which artists can choose to draw nude or clothed models from either gender in a “class mode” that starts with gesture drawings for warm-ups, then works into longer poses. One of my first “finds” was a figure drawing tutorial at Learn to Draw. I wanted to find as much information as I could on the subject of figure drawing. Soon after completing the model sketch, I was off on a Google search. Throughout my life, I’ve been involved in athletics, so learning about muscles, nerves, skin, and bones is something I’ve always enjoyed. Not me. I’ve always been a very active individual, and a very health-conscious one, as well. I know a lot of beginning artists groan at the idea of drawing something as complex as the human body, and most people I know consider anatomy an exceptionally dull subject. Once the sketch was completed, I wanted to do more figure drawing.

Drawing male nude free#

The model for the sketch was “live on video” - a lesson from a free figure drawing mini-class at Craftsy. No, I’m not inviting men to come into my little art room to pose for me. This was my first attempt at “life drawing” with a living, breathing model, and although it was a bit of a challenge, I did enjoy it. I’d noticed that odd look on his face, you see, when he came across the sketch I’d made of a partially-nude male model. I’ve already told my husband not to worry if he finds drawings of naked men. This partially-nude male was a model for a free Craftsy class.