artists depicted diving women being pleasured by octopuses, including Katsukawa Shunchō and Suzuki Harunobu. Yet Hokusai’s is the most alluring and certainly the most famous in the West, thanks to a biography and catalogue of the artist by Edmond de Goncourt, published in 1896. Self-Portrait with Model" by Lucian Freud, created in 1980-1981, captures the artist’s own body alongside that of a nude female model. The drawing is raw and emotional, with Freud’s signature hatching technique creating a sense of texture and depth. If you work with strong lighting, a value comp is important. We’ll go into it in more detail later in the course, but value is just lightness or darkness of a color. Carne Griffiths: Line drawings by Carne Griffiths: this work is spun with lines…the fine pencil layer that teases out from beneath the colour; the jagged vertical drips that streak down towards the floor; the carefully etched eyebrows and lashes and hair. Roz McQuillan: Sensitive line drawings by Roz McQuillan: the contrast between the rendered siamese cat and the white cat formed (formed from a few light lines) draws you in to this quiet embrace.

There are many line techniques can be used to create tone, as illustrated in the worksheet below. Common techniques include: Romano had trained under the Renaissance master Raphael, many of whose more widely known works Raimondi also engraved. It’s a lot to take in, but the more you try these techniques out the more you’ll find what works for you. Ushiwakamaru in different types of shading. Art by Ikue, Pinta, Jiki

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Andy Mercer: Expressive line drawings by Andy Mercer: this mixed media drawing contains a mass of lines that create the illusion of a busy city scene – a tangle of architectural form. continued the tradition of Raimondi, also borrowing the names of Aretino and Carracci, with its catalogue of sexual positions to which it lends a veneer of respectability by giving its subjects names drawn from classical mythology. and comes to fruition as an artwork when these are performed. The words are usually displayed on a gallery wall with additional sheets of paper available, which viewers are encouraged to take away with them. We generally leave 1/4” - 1/2” of paper showing around the image, to accommodate signatures and for visual appeal. While many concupiscent images relocate their sensuality on to the handling of paint, or displace
it into surrogate objects within the picture – foamy seas, cascading hair, writhing putti – this drawing
by Henry Fuseli is firmly anchored within the realm of nineteenth-century erotica. In this pencil and watercolor sketch, three women couple with a prostrate man, his head hidden between the thighs of the woman on the right. The four bodies form a pyramid; the figure at the apex lowers herself on to the erection of their common lover, while the third figure assists by holding his penis. The women’s clearly evident pubic hair and brazen sexual appetites suggest that they are prostitutes. Their elaborate hairdos corroborate that through a link to earlier works in Fuseli’s

In the case of multiple bidders placing the same maximum bid, the first person to place the maximum Jenny Saville: Known for her large-scale paintings of the human body, Saville’s work challenges traditional ideas of beauty and representation. Her paintings depict the human form in all its fragility and complexity, often blurring the boundaries between the male and female bodies.A gestural figure drawing by Chelsea Stebar: Completed while studying Animation, this gesture drawing captures a clothed figure. Note the variation in line weight: light lines applied initially, with darker lines and hints of detail all that are needed. Continuous Line Drawing In common with many of Germany’s avant-garde artists, Dix’s social consciousness was aroused when confronted with the sordid realities of the Weimar Republic. Having served as a soldier in the First World War, he yearned for a better society in which men could transcend their social levels. His moral outrage at the grotesque and decadent decay of post-war Europe became the defining subject of his paintings, and he honed in on the prostitutes, pimps, profiteers and beggars who had emerged in the intervening years. His anger at the victimization of the war wounded, who had been left half-starved and unable to support themselves, was represented unsparingly, contrasting the suffering of the unfortunate with the monstrous greed of the rich. found illicit interest across Europe and continued to be revived whether in the form of direct copying, as in the set of sixteenth-century woodcuts, or by exerting influence as in the erotic engravings of Agostino Carracci (see below). An eighteenth-century text entitled