3. WEIGHT AND FORM

The first lessons of life drawing are lessons of looking: being able to clearly see the edges of your subject, the negative spaces that surround them, and the values of tone on the surfaces of the figure are all important skills to develop. However, once you have established a basic confidence when looking, you must learn to perceive qualities in the figure that go beyond the immediately observed; qualities that relate to the life model’s presence in space, their physical nature.

These aspects – gesture, form, surface – relate to the body as something that we, as viewers, share with our model. This month’s article focuses on form in the