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u can really feel ur brain knitting itself together in new & exciting ways!!!! so good for experimenting w new materials & letting urself have some dedicated Art Time. my favourite bit is the few minutes after the last pose when everyone takes a beat to chat & admire everyone else’s beautiful art before skedaddling back off to the real world……….
Apr 12, 2024
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drawing from life is always preferable to drawing from a flat image on a screen. learning how to draw the human body from life will help you to wrap your end around all kinds of shapes in 3 dimensions, around line, around light and shadow, around personality and expressiveness. it’s a great way to meet people, it’s meditative, it’s academic, it’s fun, it can only make you a better artist. being on the modeling side of these sessions has also given me a new perspective on the process, on what helps people and what doesn’t. most fun and fulfilling side gig i’ve ever had
Mar 20, 2025
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I love the focus of everyone in the room, for 5, 10, 20 minutes at a time everyone is just there, observing and drawing. I do it only for me, it is not for a class and it is not a skill I am in desperate need of improving. I make work, some good some bad, and I enjoy the act of making and the grounding it gives me. I like the vulnerability of the space, there is no hiding the work you’re making.
As an architecture student I do not trust the art students who do not come to the open figure drawing sessions, like what are you scared of?
Mar 23, 2024
figure drawing sessions have been rly nice to get back into art!! love drawing people
Apr 14, 2025
Top Recs from @nikau
Feb 1, 2024
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romanticise ur blunders & ur missteps, bc that is just part of being a creature. if u saw a duckling fall flat on its face and scramble 2 its feet u wouldn't judge the freakin duckling, u would think it was the cutest thing ever. because it is. we r just organisms in big ungainly bodies, and that is part of our charm. tripping over ur own feet is maybe the most adorable thing u can do. like awwhh u tripped on the pavement </333
this extends 2 social interactions 2. messaging exes that u miss them, making a joke that doesn't land, mishearing/not knowing/forgetting something, etc??!!?! SO SWEET. genuinely such wonderful & important & adorable things 2 do.
i think this is maybe the best thing i've ever managed 2 train my brain 2 do. it isn't foolproof but it makes life a lot gentler.
Feb 5, 2024
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just about everything that happens to you will be interesting to your future self/your descendants/archaeologists. immortalise your to do lists, shopping lists, packing lists, things that loved ones say, things that strangers say, the phrases you hear that would make a good band name. brainstorm what to do on the weekend, list your cravings, the songs stuck in your head, transcribe birdsong, etc. i track my periods & my finances in my journal. sometimes if i really want to take a photo of something i'll restrain myself and draw it in my journal instead. sometimes i take notes for uni in there, or draft sewing patterns, or sketch when im bored. journals are self-portraits!!!!!!!
Apr 21, 2024