Figure Modeling

I’ve been both in front of and behind the canvas in figure modeling sessions. As a model, it’s exciting to see how an artist renders you.

Figure drawing can be very fast paced, poses start at 1 minute but can be up to 40. Most artists are able to produce their best work with more time, but as a consequence, the poses tend to be less dynamic and more static.

Arlene is a San Francisco based artist I modeled for one session. She has an incredible ability to capture the energy and movement of the shorter poses that I enjoy doing more as a model.

These drawings are from that session beginning with the shorter poses going into longer.

You can check out more of her work below:

www.instagram.com/arlenediehlartworks/

About the Artist:

Arlene Diehl (1957) studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, and moved in 1990 to San Francisco. Arlene says: “My work has evolved from a lifelong love for, fascination with, and sense of reverence for the human form. I have also been deeply committed over the years to the process of drawing, finding in it time and again an emotional and visceral immediacy that has served my deeper purposes. The process requires of me a very deep letting off of the brakes of any preconceived notions I may have had for that new drawing”.