Reclining nude figure study

Figure study of a nude woman leaning back against some cushions

This is another older item that I neglected to post here. On the Love Life Drawing forums, someone posted their rendition of this figure. I was taken by the pose and wanted to do my version of it. I was still in the mode of tracing simplified shapes over the reference (at the top, in blue) and then doing a freehand sketch from those shapes (in green). I then did a clean lines layer (in black) with some broad hatched shading. I’m pleased with the look of this one, and I still really like the look with the sketch layer intact.