Some guy (who modelled for a few hours).

Painted this last week. I'm going to the workshop Elaine Despins is giving on flesh tones tomorrow. I'm expecting some improvement.

This is always the hardest pose to draw.

Why so hard?

• Upside down heads are always difficult. 
• The size relationships (hips, chest, head and distances) are difficult to get right without measuring. 
• The skull-spine-ribcage-hip diagram that's so useful for a standing pose, and which I appreciate because it helps me convey how weight is balanced and born  to the ground, becomes a set of strung-together masses, one in front of the other.

This type of pose must be one of the easiest to hold.  It's associated with beauty, intimacy, and voyeurism, as in watching a sleeping person.  So it should be good, but once a drawing session is enough, thank you. 

I don't like it.  In my meaner moments, I think of it as a vanity pose.  But, on the upside, I have to admit that it takes a lot of discipline to draw it accurately, so once in a while, once a session, it's ok.