Female Figure Drawing Series (Part 1)
Mediums range from acrylic, gouache, copic ink, felt pen, and pencil on Bristol and art paper, 2026
I recently started a series of female figure drawing portraits in a fb art group where I asked for volunteers who wanted to be drawn, expecting maybe 10 or 20 people to respond. To my surprise, I got nearly 100 responses from ladies of all different shapes and sizes, with equally varied interpretations of the prompt.
These are a selection from the first dozen or so of those who asked to participate, with a few extra requests from here on reddit and museum. What I'm hoping comes across with these finished pieces is a sense of admiration and sensitivity to the female form, coupled with candid and fun moments captured in my random blend of western comic-book and "pseudo-postimpressionistic" styles.
I've been drawing portraits of strangers I meet for the past 12 years or so, but this series has been one of my most successful yet, both in terms of the response and how happy I am with the resulting art! Part of the motivation for starting this project was to a) get over my lingering conservative shame over nudity in art, b) explore a more vulnerable and intimate side of portraiture than my usual portraits do, and c) brush up on female figure proportions as practice for a women-led animated series I'm working on (since I spent over 50% of my childhood and teenage years drawing Spider-Man and other male superheroes. 😆)
Anyway, if you got this far, thank you for reading! Feel free to message me if you're interested to hear about or see more of my projects and artwork. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts. 😌 Cheers!
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