In this course students will take their knowledge to the next level by developing strategies for the long-pose: how to start, develop and finish a figure drawing. Students will learn fundamental and advanced concepts of anatomy used to “lock-in” to a structural awareness of the figure so as to understand, choose and develop a tactile form. This will be balanced with constant reinforcement of tone and pictorial idea to take their figures into the picture plane to inhabit a viable space and atmosphere. Art history will be relied on heavily to discuss the ideas of form, space and pictorial intent.