Life Drawing Full Figure - charcoal with value - K

Below is my final version. smoothed out the background and tried to aim for the value design I had in mind. lowered the contrast on the abdomin. Just realized the...

I have been waiting to get a better look at the area of the rib cage but no luck. I could say that I picked a pose that just does...

I added in the background this week. Pretty much following the value study. My main goal with the background was to get it to a smooth and singular value. This...

I'm going to take the advice of giving this pose a chance. It's somewhat rare but I was told to look for the pose in the model. This is what...

More small studies trying to capture variations of this pose. Like always, the pose changes a lot. I like the more straight up pose, the second from the left, but...

Long pose studies on A4. A very observant friend told me that my life drawings here show more confidence, and that I probably work around it faster with more decisiveness....