figure drawing
Sketching human forms
Figure drawing is the practice of sketching or rendering the human body, typically from a live model.
It emphasizes anatomy, proportion, and gesture rather than portraiture or narrative.
Art students often begin with quick gesture drawings before progressing to sustained studies: The studio offers figure drawing sessions every Tuesday.
The term also refers to the drawings themselves.
- quick sketchBrief informal drawing
- pencilGraphite writing instrument
- foreshorteningDepicting depth through size
- croquisQuick gestural drawing
- anatomy lessonInstruction in bodily structure
atelier · art school · charcoal · shading · easel · skeletal structure · portraiture · proportions · realism · sketching · cross-hatching · posture · drapery · illustration · torso · painting · sculpture · classical style
- art educationart classes, art schools, art curriculum, art teacher, art school
- artfine art, Renaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint
- art formspainting, sculpture, photography, music, dance
- fine artsfine art, fine arts, painting, visual arts, sculpture
- visual artfine art, painting, portrait, sketch, paintings
- coloring subjectsanimals, butterflies, cats, dinosaurs, dogs
figure drawingstill life
Art of inanimate objects
landscape drawing · architectural drawing · botanical illustration · mechanical drawing · animal drawing
figure drawingabstract drawing
Image without realistic subject
abstract expressionism · abstract composition · conceptual art