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.