Bodies, In Colour
These are some recent figure drawings by Thomas Hendry
Life drawing sessions have shut down with the pandemic lockdowns, and I have much more free time on my hands at home.
My favourite working process is life drawing in person. Online life sessions don't have as much of the human connection that working from an actual person brings.
So I've been exploring other avenues of figure drawing. In particular, I'm interested in the self-representation people have been doing online. Particularly around body positivity and self-empowerment.
The internet and camera technology allows for a much wider range of people to represent themselves. This in turn affords a broad opportunity to explore body diversity and working with colour media.
I don't feel that art images of human bodies are de facto `adult content'. These images lean towards literal photographic representation, so rather than have them blocked by some algorithm on other platforms, I have elected to post them here with a content warning. Some of the poses also have a more erotic edge. The cropping of many of the source images emphasizing torsos.
This is documentation of an evolving body of work. I have sought the permission of the original posters, and the response has been overwhelmingly affirmative.
I hope these images help to celebrate the richness and diversity of human bodies, of all shapes, sizes and ages, and to foster a healthy appreciation for everyone's bodies - epecially our own.
Life drawing sessions have shut down with the pandemic lockdowns, and I have much more free time on my hands at home.
My favourite working process is life drawing in person. Online life sessions don't have as much of the human connection that working from an actual person brings.
So I've been exploring other avenues of figure drawing. In particular, I'm interested in the self-representation people have been doing online. Particularly around body positivity and self-empowerment.
The internet and camera technology allows for a much wider range of people to represent themselves. This in turn affords a broad opportunity to explore body diversity and working with colour media.
I don't feel that art images of human bodies are de facto `adult content'. These images lean towards literal photographic representation, so rather than have them blocked by some algorithm on other platforms, I have elected to post them here with a content warning. Some of the poses also have a more erotic edge. The cropping of many of the source images emphasizing torsos.
This is documentation of an evolving body of work. I have sought the permission of the original posters, and the response has been overwhelmingly affirmative.
I hope these images help to celebrate the richness and diversity of human bodies, of all shapes, sizes and ages, and to foster a healthy appreciation for everyone's bodies - epecially our own.
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