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It is important to keep challenging yourself as you work toward getting better at something. This particular pose is tricky because it has a lot of overlapping forms and foreshortening. The place  where the model's right knee overlaps her right arm while simultaneously existing behind it - that's the sort of the thing that really stumps me every time. But this time, I got it!

I didn't finish the drawing in the 20 minutes I gave myself, but I got something on the paper that pretty accurately begins to describe the original photo. I am beginning to get the hang of some basic construction techniques.

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