Week 2 Reflections: Encountering the Figure Copies

Clothing in my selected drawings obscures the form and is used for narrative mainly, describing where the image takes place, from a field to a swimming pool.  Most do not have too much background visible, so the clothing sets the narrative.  The images also featured stylised and traditional nudes, and the lack of clothes is more jarring in some of these.  For instance, Moore's seated figure does not show a glamorous, sexy model; it's like his sculpture, a 3d study of a human figure.  It does show his style of thinking in 3D; he's playing with light, space and volume.  It's an elongated non-representational image with the viewer looking up at a female or male figure.  Because it's a simple charcoal drawing with a background, this is a sketchbook idea, not a preparatory drawing leading to a final image.  If you look at Leonardo's image, for instance, he tended to use this life study poses in multiple final images.