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5 Nudes: Jose
Five life drawings of one model
Jose is another model that I have only drawn online. I wasn’t sure what to make of him at first as he cut a rather slumped figure at the Candid Arts drawing session back in 2023. At the time they had four cameras to choose from on Zoom and I picked out a side view and settled in for the first pose. Ten minutes later I was beginning to get a feeling of calm stoicism from the model and the following three minute poses had him stretching almost imperceptibly at first, before stepping forward, raising his arm and arching his back. And there it was, the best pose I’d seen in ages with a gift of a viewpoint from a floor level camera.
That pose got me immediately on side and the session went extremely well from there on and left me a firm fan of the enigmatic Jose and his wild goatee beard.
1 Jose Candid 2 051023
I have written about this pose previously but I could not have an article on its subject without including what I consider to be one of the best drawings I have made. At the risk of repetition I will simply paste below what I had said before as it still holds true:
