Portrait drawing of women are one of the most favourite subjects. The woman being portrayed would be in different postures. The artist making her portrait takes special care taking the typical postures she is holding. It is needless to mention that the work of an artist would not be an easy one here. It would be sensual one, too, for the artist and the viewers alike. The following articles narrate how the women in various postures are recreated with the help of pencil.
Detail of Pencil Drawing of a Woman Wearing no clothes
If you want to draw the whole body portrait of a woman wearing no clothes, you would need to make her sitting at a distance. It would make drawing all the limbs in proper size and shape. The drawing of face and facial expressions and other delicate parts like shoulders and breasts would test the abilities of an artist.
When you are to draw a portrait of a woman having no clothes on from the back side, you would need much shading work. After the basic work drawing the anatomy is done, the precise shading creates a sense of volume in the drawing.
How to Draw Breasts of a Woman
Drawing bare breasts of a woman is one of the most delicate work for a portrait artist. The size and shapes of the breast would vary from a woman to woman. If the clothless lady sits in side, it would be drawing of one breasts full from the side an another would be less hi-lighted.
Drawing of a sitting person required perfect attention about the falling of the light on various parts of body. Here the artists would make it sure about the source of light and the direction from which it is coming. The lighted area of the body of a woman wearing no clothes of minimum clothes would decide how long and how intensive the shadow of her would be.
While a woman is sleeping, she would form a shape that could be straight or curvy. The portrait artist would assess the distance of the woman being portrayed and the posture she makes while sleeping. If she is posing front side towards the artists, it would be a totally different style than from a portrait from back side. The woman might be sleeping on a bed or a sofa. Or she may be sleeping her belly keeping downward.
Some times an artist wants to make a drawing of a woman doing some work. She may be, generally, reading or sewing or doing any other domestic work. In every incident, the artist would be required to use his or her specific talent. [Image courtesy Kenyon Cox [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons]
