Julia - 02-08-19

Flexible Model
Last year I hired dancer Julia Gómez Avilés as a model. Next to being a wonderful person for an artist she is ideal because of her flexibility. She can pose in many ways and has lots of stamina. This drawing is not from a live drawing session, such as my colored pencil drawing ‘Julia – 11-09-18’. Instead it is based on a picture I saw in her Instagram account. When saw it I immediately felt an urge to use it as a motif for a drawing. In case you don’t know her yet, please visit her profile.

Extreme Pose
Surely I wanted to do this one because of the extreme pose. The challenge to render her complex body position in a credible way while still adding value to the theme. These sorts of drawings always offer a challenge. It is difficult to make something out of thin structures like the limbs in this specific case. The negative space around can become dominant all too easily. I think I solved this problem by throwing in some golden ratio-like curves. Not man