CHAPTER 5EXERCISES AND SELF-STUDY
Recommended Exercises
I was recently teaching a live drawing workshop where I met a very motivated student. This young man asked me one of the smartest questions I’ve ever heard from a student: “What exercises should I do?”
I was shocked at the simplicity of this question. I realized that this student echoed something I had asked my mentors and teachers many years ago. It was a question I asked myself when I began my life drawing journey. Because it seemed so long ago, and because of all the thousands of hours of drawing I had done and the decades of professional experience, I had forgotten how much practice and exercise I had done myself when I was first learning figure drawing. To this young student, thank ...
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