In teaching students to draw the figure, I often think that they forget they actually have a body, too. They accept proportions and shapes in their drawings that make no visual sense. So it becomes important to me to remind them of this wonderful thing they have. I encourage them to be conscious of their bodies, how they move, when they reach their limits, how they encase and exhibit feelings. Pay attention to their bodies when then walk and when they shower.
I will also ask the model to take a physically demanding pose, hold it for a minute or two, then ask the students to take the same pose. This gives them some empathy for the model and some awareness of the feelings that result form the pose.
I will also ask the model to take a physically demanding pose and ask the students to draw, not the figure, but the tensions, stresses and internal dynamics of the pose. All is an attempt to go beyond seeing the figure to also feeling the figure, from looking at the outside to thinking from the inside.
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