4. SURFACE
As we seek to better understand the figure, we often direct our attention to the deepest anatomy – those hidden masses that define the structure and rhythm of our model’s physique. In our haste to understand the interactions of bone and muscle, we bypass the one thing that every life drawing should reference: the largest organ in the body, skin. In this penultimate article of a five-part figure drawing series I’ll be focusing on the skin and the marks we use to record our observations of it.
The surface of skin defines the practice life drawing – when we draw a clothed model, we are drawing a character draped in the trappings of their selected
