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  2. Figure drawing - Wikipedia

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    A life drawing is a drawing of the human figure, traditionally nude, from observation of a live model. Creating life drawings, or life studies , in a life class , has been a large element in the traditional training of artists in the Western world since the Renaissance.

  3. Model sheet - Wikipedia

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    A sample model sheet from the DVD tutorial 'Chaos&Evolutions' In visual arts, a model sheet, also known as a character board, character sheet, character study or simply a study, is a document used to help standardize the appearance, poses, and gestures of a character in arts such as animation, comics, and video games.

  4. Figure study - Wikipedia

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    A figure study is a drawing or painting of the human body made in preparation for a more composed or finished work; [1] or to learn drawing and painting techniques in general and the human figure in particular. By preference, figure studies are done from a live model, but may also include the use of other references [2] and the imagination of ...

  5. Model (art) - Wikipedia

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    An art model is a person who poses, often nude, for visual artists as part of the creative process, providing a reference for the human body in a work of art. As an occupation, modeling requires the often strenuous ' physical work ' of holding poses for the required length of time, the 'aesthetic work' of performing a variety of interesting ...

  6. The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

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    The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right was made on a rectangular sheet of paper measuring 20.3 × 15.6 cm. It seems that several years after its creation, it was amputated by wide strips on all four sides, as evidenced by copies made by followers, such as the one preserved in the Albertina Museum in Vienna (dated between 1508 and 1513 and measuring 22.7 × 26 cm): it thus ...

  7. Horsehead Amphora - Wikipedia

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    They are vessels with a very pronounced belly, decorated with black figure horseheads on both sides. In a single case, one side depicts a woman's head. In contrast to earlier belly amphorae, the painters did not apply a separate frieze on the neck. The decoration was painted within reserved rectangular panels; the remaining vase of the body was ...

  8. Tadpole person - Wikipedia

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    A tadpole person [1] [2] [3] or headfooter [4] [5] is a simplistic representation of a human being as a figure without a torso, with arms and legs attached to the head. Tadpole people appear in young children's drawings before they learn to draw torsos and move on to more realistic depictions such as stick figures .

  9. Model (person) - Wikipedia

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    A female model posing on a typical studio shooting set. A model is a person with a role either to display commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to serve as an artist's model. Modelling ("modeling" in American English) entails using one's body to represent someone else's body or someone's artistic imagination of a ...