Human figure drawing, especially life drawing from a model, is one of
the most rewarding ways of practicing art because it can enhance your
abilities in ways that are both practical and inspirational. It's
practical in that creating figure drawings develops skills that will
serve you again and again as an artist—contour, shading, line, and the
relationship of parts to a whole. It's inspirational in that the
landscape of the human body contains almost every form, texture, shape,
and curve that an artist could possibly want to recreate, and there is
an endless array of ways to do so.
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