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Figure Drawing was once an entirely utilitarian and practical endeavor, an exercise in learning anatomy necessary in painting large figurative paintings and murals, as well as in painting mythological paintings featuring nude figures. Today, figure drawing is viewed as a subgenre in its own right. In contemporary fine art training, learning how to draw the figure has been gradually de-emphasized, on the notion that it is anachronistic for non-figurative artists (when I went to art school in the late 1960s, we had a six-hour and a three-hour life class every week). On the other hand, the creation of game characters has brought renewed emphasis on the ability to draw the figure. Others might claim, however, that drawing timeless and the most direct and immediate of any of the arts, in that it can be done with any instrument capable of making a mark, including the burnt end of a stick (charcoal).
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