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I tried a different pose, one looking straight towards the viewer and making eye contact. I think his added smile was a great touch, and allowed his personality to shine through and connect with the viewer. Again its like his pose and expression resembles listening to the viewer in conversation, it creates somewhat of an interaction and intimacy between the model and the viewer, which is something that I am interested in maybe incorporating into my assignment piece. To create a direct connection through eye contact could add to the female gaze I want to push within my work. In so many traditional portraits of women they make eye contact with the viewer in order to make them seem guilty of their nakedness for being so self aware. So this can be a take on that but with more of a positive spin, personifying that act of being self aware. Although my model isn’t completely naked, he is in a vulnerable position of just being in his underwear, so to have such a positive response to his situation, which did take him time to get used to, adds to this positivity of being happy and confident in ones own skin.

https://simonadrawingone.art.blog/2021/05/30/first-look-sketches-of-a-man