*cheek bait!!* 😂

Back in college, we had a figure drawing model who would make DIRECT EYE CONTACT with the people drawing him to make them uncomfortable...regardless...It worked haha

When working with a real person, it's not awkward cause they're naked. It's cause they keep looking at you with those *eyes*

2018: Not gonna recommend this 2019: Still not gonna recommend this 2020: Time to recommend this

Porn isn’t the same as nudity. Beautifully done, Jazza. Your ability to adapt to new styles and processes is awe inspiring.

*dRaW mE LiKe OnE oF yOuR fReNcH gIrLs JaZzA*

Jazza: the proportions are off Me: *look at my sketchbook* well if your proportions are off then mine are off... to vacations

I can't tell you how many times I've used that exact phrase when teaching drawing! "Draw what you see, not what you think you see." Can't tell you how many times nobody understood what I meant.

Me: OK, I'm gonna do some figure drawing to practice drawing people and I will be mature about it. Me 5 seconds later: heehee bumcheek

The fact youtube age restricted this yet it's even safer than as safe as you can get because this is art, *it shows how far it's gone down*

For your information, KZfaq creators are allowed to present uncensored, or inappropriate-looking images, as long as it is educational, or meant towards an educational purpose, like art or drawing.

Me : seeing NSFW in title My finger : press

It's crazy hard (haha) to admit, but I actually used to randomly scrub to a timestamp and pause *porn* as drawing anatomy practice. I'd only draw one person in each scene I paused, but as awkward as it was it made for damn good figure practice. There's always someone twisting, bending, stretching, etc. and with the facial expressions, muscles, and shadows/lighting made for good perspective practice. Very awkward, but I feel like googling "naked women" is a bit creepier than straight up porn lmao

Next time you're in my area hit me up and we can go life drawing.

"Sorry, this content is age restricted" - when KZfaq makes fun of you because you forgot to lie that you are 18+ in your google account XD

I feel so relaxed just watching Jazza draw. Its a nice stress relief by just letting go and appreciate the art for what it is. So Beautiful.

For any artist looking to improve their sense of proportions, I recommend taking a class in figure drawing. Over a short amount of time you get a lot better at seeing proportions very quickly. You have to because the model will always be moving, nobody can stand perfectly still. After the class you will notice your skill in drawing other things will have improved dramatically.

Draw me like one of your French Benjamins

Draw me like one of your french girls Jazza

One of my favorite backgrounds for my laptop growing up was a drawing of a topless woman wearing a really cool skirt, kneeling, and you saw her from the back. The lines were so beautiful and flowed really well. Her hair, the small of her back, the band on the skirt, it was just incredibly cool. And I felt sort of contemplative when I saw it. My parents were a bit... surprised by this, lol. I was a teen, yes, but I was a straight girl, and with a low sex drive to boot, so they thought it was really odd. And I knew they looked at it and immediately felt it was somewhat sexual, but I never saw it that way. Am I innately sexual to them because I have breasts now? No, so... that thinking was also always a bit strange to me as well. We never really understood each other on that. Of all the things I want to be able to reliably draw, it’s people (of course, why should it be something easy, lol). As a writer, I’ve spent hundreds of hours over the years, searching images for characters somewhat like mine, to have inspirational images. At some point I’m sure I’ll commission some work. But... if I had the power to not just describe them in words, but in pictures, that would be... amazing. There’s a kind of power in being able to capture the impression of someone, their physicality and intent, to discern not just what’s there, but the truth of it. I very much hope that one day I can achieve it and have that ability for myself.

The royal art academy did an hour long live life drawing class. The video is still on the website and I found it really good to follow along to.

My art teacher always said “draw what you see; not what you know”. It’s the best piece of advice I’ve ever had when it comes to art and drawing/painting

This reminds me of how back in elementary and middle school, i'd be sketching out a base of a person and people will be like "ewww you're drawing naked people" and i'm just like "plᵉᵃˢᵉ ˡᵉᵃᵛᵉ ᵐᵉ ᵇᵉ"

"a boobs is a boobs, a bum is a bum" "every shape is beautiful" I think Im in the wrong place lol

I sometimes wish that i could draw these at home but i'm too scared my mom would dig this up and think that i was drawing it just because it's naked. I would get in REAL trouble

When Jazza said he didn’t have the time to go to a live drawing class, I just imagined a line of naked people out his front door wanting him to draw them 😂

One of the best Jazza videos - this is how you study art. Go through it, watch the important parts, find comfort in warped proportion through perspective.

“I had a lot of fun in the process”

I love drawing the female body. It's nothing sexual. It just flows so naturally in comparison to the male body. It's beautiful.

if you want to try figure drawing, for the first time, try working with less time first like 30 sec then gradually move up to 1 min, 2, 5, 30, and 1 hr. By doing so, you limit the amount of lines you draw and have more fluid linework instead of scratchy sketchiness. Especially if you are working on a smaller working area! Definitely working with bigger pages like a newsprint pad and using something like hard charcoal or a china marker will allow you to draw from your shoulder and arm, rather than your wrist. Using these tips and tools will step up your figure drawing game exponentially 👌

Jazza... your descriptions of everything your drawling and how you're doing it and how you would make mistakes and how to avoid and how it's ok, has helped me so much with my drawlings... thank you so much, it has helped me be way more confident about my drawlings...

Good job, Jazza! These look great. I took a figure sculpture class when I was in college. I just got rid of my sculptures that have been in storage because my husband said we could never display headless naked old men in our home. That class was a hoot. It was taught by an elderly priest who had been doing it forever and he was super comfortable about having naked models and talking about their bodies, while the class was full of somewhat mortified students.

Am I the only one who clicked because they were genuinely interested in the topic and the thumbnail wasn't a factor at all? *Edit:* hey thanks for all the likes! I wasn't expecting that many people to be on board with this. Lol! Also come on Y'all, most "artists" couldn't care less that a figure is naked, it's not about that. There's more to a human being than their genitals. Some people are actually interesting in learning anatomy and how to capture motion, learn how to find and identify the line of action, and are genuinely interested for academic purposes. Stop calling everyone liars. Just because a lot of people are pervs don't expect everyone to be. Some people are actually here to learn, not to satisfy primal urges. Lmao. Just as a side note, I'm a female not a male...to everyone who keeps calling me a guy. (I don't get triggered by it, it just feels weird being called something you aren't. Lol)

Please don’t listen to these “what happened to family friendly”. I think it’s wonderful you’re attempting to expand your range I’m sorry some of your audience is childish.

I always found drawing from my mind was very hard! I usually draw like this but watching you helped me improve on my skills now! Thank you! Also thank you Skillshare!

I have used line of action for about 2 years now and I love it! It is honestly such a fantastic tool!

It’s funny how people think that drawing nude studies is SO EROTIC like it’s not just a constant fevered struggle to get something that doesn’t look like ditto mated with a praying mantis

*Hey, you!* Yes, you random artist scrolling in the comment section. Do you do this? Do you ever do life/gesture drawings? If not, do it! -The time limit can help increase how quickly you can put down art on paper -It helps build up your mental library so you can create more poses from memory -It reduces stiffness in your artwork -It helps build your understanding of anatomy and relative proportion It doesn't matter if you draw realism, semi realism, cartoony, or you draw everything like the powerpuff girls or adventure time with wacky, clearly unnatural proportions. It will help you SO MUCH to do these figure drawings! It's also a great way to relax and a way to force yourself to draw when you don't really want to draw anything.

Hi jazza. I dont know if you will be able to read this with all the comments, but i just want to say that i love your channel. This video really connected with me because over the last semester i took a figure drawing class at my college. The class has taught me the beauty of the human body and the many sizes and shapes. Its a completely different feeling have a person pose for you to draw than just using pictures from a website. I went from not knowing a thing about drawing a human to being happy with my the way my artwork came out. Im glade to watch your videos because it gives me new ways to look at art and explore the many ways to create art. So i would like to thank you for bring joy into my life with your videos.

sensitivly handled and calmly delivered! happy 2019 Jazza!

There's so much peace in your channel Jazza. The community you got here is all very nice, I'm very glad to have come across your channel. Keep on teaching us with all the good stuffs you have for us. And your video was really well thorough, I loved it.

lmao a lot of people who haven't done nude life drawings seem to think it's erotic or something when it's literally you sitting there wondering how you prevent your art from looking like an avocado with legs

Me: sees nude women : aight Also me: sees nude men: ew boy parts

Haven't watched your channel in a while, great to see you are still making videos

I've always wanted to draw a partially naked lady but I've never had the courage to do it... :/

5:18 she's more thicc in the drawing then the original pic... I see you jazza

i know this is an old video and i’ve been following Jazza for a while but i never saw this one, anyways i’ve never been to a live drawing thing but some of my friends have sent me pictures of them (in undergarments) to just practice because they actually like seeing my progress and are very interested in my drawing techniques. Although i really don’t draw realistic art often i’ve gotten better and have come to liking it a lot, at first it is extremely hard especially when your just looking at a picture and seeing every little detail at once it can be stressful but it gets easier and more fun as you go on. Definitely proud of Jazza for getting the bigger focused details and not stressing about the smaller things in the pictures and freaking out because that’s exactly what i did the first time i tried something like this.

I think they are absolutely beautiful and perfect. I went to college for figure study/figure drawing and I LOVE it. I think you nailed it to be out of your comfort zone. ❤️

This video taught me a lot. Not only how beautiful and modest this kind of drawing can be but also taught me a little more about the different body types. Makes me feel a little better about my own body to realize that everyone is different in a lot of ways. Very beautiful. Thank you Jazza.

Why is this age restricted its art 😑

I love how even Professional artist don’t know all the terms for life drawing or figure drawing And all of those young artists out there, you will be great soon, I know it

Ive been using line of action for soooo long. Glad to see it get some recognition

I'm not going lie, But Life Drawing course was my Favorite course in Art fundamental Class. I never drew humans, I hated it but after drawing the human figure over and over and over, I started loving it and became much better with the figure, action lines, proportions, everything. If I can find another life drawing course around where I live, I want to go and draw again. The fun of drawing a pose in 5 min, 2 min, 1 min, 30 seconds, 10 seconds! So much fun especially when the model jokes around with us.

Why is this age restricted we did this in high school

A lot of what you said in this video is what I thought and felt about it when I tried it last year.

"Practicing nude drawing" time to delete my watch history

I'm 16 and like 3 months ago when i was still 15 i was with my mom and i asked her "Would you get mad at me if i draw a nude person? Like, if i ever do that would you want to see it, or if you don't want to see it but you do it would you do anything against my drawing?" And she told me "A long time ago i drew a nude person. Now let me tell you that your grandma wasn't too happy about it, but i understand. It would be wrong for me to tell you not to do it when i already did it and i get that a nude body is the most normal thing in the world. I'll just tell you, i don't want you obsessed with nudity, like, don't do it too often cause many people won't take it in the right way and you can get in trouble" to be honest she took my questions wayyy better that what i was expecting, i tought that she was more conservative and I'm just glad she understands the artistic point of it. From my point of view, a human body is one of the most beautiful things in the world. I just love how different every person is, from the 1000s of skintones to the 1000s of sizes and I wish that people would understand that our anatomy is pure art. With this video i got the missing motivation i needed and now I'm sure that one day I'll paint a real body and I'm gonna be proud of that. Thanks for reading thorough my broken english, have a nice day 💙

*Looks at title...DEMONITIZED*

Would love to see more learning new skills in art and experiments with new mediums! Great work Jazza! Amazing to see your progress and that no matter how professional you are you are still learning :)

Very nice tips, Jazza! You’re really improving! ^^

I'm 15 and am taking art in school And my parents decided to see my graphic diary and I had decided to try some of this before and they were completely shocked😂

I did life drawing in college for 2-3 hours once a week for 2 years straight (killed my shoulders since you had to standtge whole time), would always have this naked plump old man who we nicknamed 'naked John'. He was cool, apparently owned his own restaurant and only did the life modelling as a hobby/to help the college out. I still have so many A2 drawings/paintings of him stored away... He once fell alseep splayed out on a table with his parts in full view X3 ~

you make everything look easy

i’m binge watching all his videos

I’m 14 and I started life drawing classes this year. I’ve wanted to go to this class since foverever lol and it’s been helping me a lot, just as I thought. Don’t be ashamed to go to this kinds of classes, they’re super useful and fun! By the way Jazza, I’ve got an exercise for you! (And of course,for everyone who’s interested) I’ve done this several times at my life drawing classes and the results are quite surprising. Take an image as the ones you’ve been using and start drawing ONLY by placing the SHADOWS in the paper. NO LINEWORK! After you’ve done that, place the linework. Surprisingly, the drawing will probably turn out better than you thought. That’s because our brain has to focus harder on dimensions and distances, so we end up drawing those more accurately. It’s quite amazing!

Love how real this video is. Great art being made with flaws and all. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you jazza , very cool!

Going to actual classes is really valuable, drawing a 3D object from real life is a lot more organic and a very different experience than referencing photos. Photo referencing is a wonderful commodity, and can help massively in the learning and development of our art, but I think it is important to supplement this by drawing from life, as it gives you a better understanding of the form as you view the subject from slightly different angles, and it becomes easier in a way to stylize..or emotionalise (?XD) a sketch, rather than it being a mechanical copy. Just having this experience is very enriching, even if you're not doing it all the time.

Heads up, if you get the two months for 99 cents, MAKE SURE YOU REMEMBER TO CANCEL if you don't plan on keeping it. They don't charge by the month, they charge by the year. Found this out the hard way when I had 3 months free from another channel. I used it a few time and completely forgot to cancel and was charged 100 dollars for the next year -_-

And here we see that even Jazza has not mastered his art. That makes me feel better.

I for some reason felt really comfortable and at peace watching this. Maybe because of the calm music in the background, I don’t really know but I do think drawing like this actually make you realise how natural it is and I don’t like the way everyone looks at nudity and nude photography as something sexual or inappropriate. I think it’s pretty actually pretty normal for existence.

If Jazza moves I bet he will take his wall with him.

I waited to see what he would do with avatar Jazza, and man he did not disappoint.

I had my first live drawing session when I was 18 and I remember thinking it would probably be embarrassing, but literally 2 minutes in you're so focused on what you're doing there's no awkwardness at all. Those lessons really helped me. I also remember being given 5 minutes and thinking it wouldn't be nearly enough time, but after doing it a couple of times I started moving around the room and drawing the model twice from different angles because It seemed like way too much time to spend on just one drawing. It's amazing how quickly these muscles develop. I highly recommend trying it out if you get the chance.

My mum in her 20s was a life model. I tried to get in a life drawing class near me for a course, but there are no spaces as it’s filled with old men painting, they’ve been in it for years. Sounds a good course as I need to speed up too.

*Draw me like one of yo french girls*

I’m taking A-level art, and our teachers organised a model to come into class. It was actually really great and a realistic way to learn life drawing! I’ve got another class today, and it’s improved our skills so much!

You inspire me to get back into drawing people. I have a fear of human sketches because i worry about ruining proportions. But this concept of time limit seems like it is very helpful so im not dwelling on little parts!

I only recently started to learn how to draw, and I find the idea of loosening up very motivating. Drawing still feels hard, because everything is new and complicated to me. But accepting the flaws that will inevitably be there, and not being too precious about practice drawings... that's a really soothing thought. :3

Wait, how will this be NSFW? Sure, the thumbnail is clickbait-y and a bit NSFW, but life drawing is just a practice to study anatomy. The naked body isn’t NSFW, it’s the situation that that naked body is in that makes it NSFW.

DRAWING 👏 NUDE 👏 MODELS 👏 IS 👏 NOT 👏 NSFW 👏 OR 👏 SHAMEFUL 👏

every shape is beautiful

drawing a live model is the best feeling ever to an artist :)

People saying this isn't kid friendly..... like really! If you didn't like it don t watch it!! Nudity is a thing of art grow up!!

My point will always stay that there is nothing that should be weird about a boob. A man's chest can be shown and it's not very different from a woman's.

Jazza liked making this one

This was great to watch. I have always wanted to do a figure drawing course. And I finaly did last year. It was really rewarding .

You can use www.quickposes.com for quick, still life models! I've used it and it's ace! EDIT: Thank you so much for all the likes!! And an extra special thanks to Jazza for noticing me! :D EDIT 2: holy shit... 900 likes. Thank you!

People-watching helps a lot too! It's drawing from life as it is, constantly moving and therefore having to be captured as quickly as possible. I find that it's quite relaxing, since you're usually more focused on the bigger picture of the whole person in this one moment, instead the finer points-- it really helps you loosen up.

god, u make it look so easy

i’m an art major at my college and have a life drawing class every wednesday night. it was super awkward at first but i actually enjoy it a lot now! it was cool seeing this video since it relates a lot to what i do every week(:

Have you ever tried drawing something only looking at the negative space around the object and not the object itself? That probably doesn't make any sense, but if you know what I'm talking about it is a really good way to tap into the right brain

Don't listen to those haters who say it's "not family friendly" they just don't understand that there are a ton of forms of art

I did life drawing for my college course,i was intrested in doing animation at the time, it was a really good way to learn the anatomy of the body and proportions.

Your avatar in the thumbnail is everything

Draw me like one of your French Jazzas...? The Passpartout plot thickens.

Both my parents and my friends always ask to see my sketchbook and I always refuse, 'cause I know they'd overreact. They once saw a drawing of mine in which the girl had the TINIEST bit of cleavage showing and they went ham, lecturing me about how "inappropriate" it was. Smh. (I don't know how'd they react to nude drawings - though I don't think I want to find out, I'd probably be disowned lol) *Edit:* they found my "nsfw" sketchbook and they made me rip out all the pages and throw them in the trash, all my work gone just because my fucking parents are ignorant as hell oml

So last semester I had a live model class and we had this lovely young woman who had a sporty body and very fun to draw lines. The first class of that semester was hella awkward but then it all calmed down. Now, this semester I’m in anatomy drawing and hoooo boy! I walked into class the other day a bit late and as soon as I close the door the door of the little changing room opens and BAM the first thing I see as I look up is a mans you know what. Apparently we had a new model....well I can at least tell you that he’s a show-er not a grower. All in all tho he has some pretty amazing muscle lines for an older dude

Omg yeah line of action is so freaking good! I have used it for a year now.

One like extra for blushing jazza in thumbnail 😂😂😂🤣