Figure Study is pretty much what you think it is. It's the infamous class with the nude model.
I now looove drawing nudes. The curves, the light and shadow, it's all just perfect!
The majority of the work in this class are in class lessons so I'm basically going to show that work chronologically with a couple of explained assignments at the end.
Blind Contour
Blind Contour
Contour Drawing
Contour Drawing
Contour Drawing
Negative Space
Negative Space
Overlapping fast drawings
Overlapping fast drawings
Overlapping fast drawings
Overlapping fast drawings
Focused drawings
Focused drawings
Focused drawings
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro
And finally, the assignments...
Assignment:Create an anatomical study using a drawing medium(s) of your choice. You may choose to draw the entire figure or focus on a section. Situate your study within a context, environment, situation, or narrative. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
Assignment:Have two people model for you. In these observational drawings, make one a frontal portrait and the second a profile. Use a different medium(s) for each. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
Assignment:Create an anatomical study using a drawing medium(s) of your choice. You may choose to draw the entire figure or focus on a section. Situate your study within a context, environment, situation, or narrative. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”. 
Assignment:Have two people model for you. In these observational drawings, make one a frontal portrait and the second a profile. Use a different medium(s) for each. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.(I did Ken on butcher paper because he was a butcher for quite some time - he often talks about it and grosses me right out)
Assignment: Have two people model for you. In these observational drawings, make one a frontal portrait and the second a profile. Use a different medium(s) for each. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
Assignment:Create a finished drawing that contextualizes one or more figures within a narrative structure. Questions to consider: What is the story? What formal and conceptual means will best express this? How will these decisions impact the audience’s interpretation?
Use a drawing medium of your choice. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
Assignment:Create a tonal drawing emphasizing light & dark, modulated light & modulated shadow, and reflected light, of a close-up section of the body. Your drawing should call attention to volume and contrast, and your composition must take up the entire frame. Use black or sanguine conte. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
Assignment: Have two people model for you. In these observational drawings, make one a frontal portrait and the second a profile. Use a different medium(s) for each. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”. 
Assignment:Create a finished drawing that contextualizes one or more figures within a narrative structure. Questions to consider: What is the story? What formal and conceptual means will best express this? How will these decisions impact the audience’s interpretation? Use a drawing medium of your choice. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
Assignment:Create a tonal drawing emphasizing light & dark, modulated light & modulated shadow, and reflected light, of a close-up section of the body. Your drawing should call attention to volume and contrast, and your composition must take up the entire frame. Use black or sanguine conte. The minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”. 
And this is my favourite... <3
Assignment:Following our discussion on contemporary figurative art, appropriate the style of a contemporary figurative artist to create a self-portrait. Your drawing should reference both the artist’s formal and conceptual framework. This assignment is not intended as a study but as a finalized drawing, which means that the entire frame must be considered and addressed. You may use a medium of your choice and the minimum paper dimension is 18”x24”.
I chose Kara Walker and used this piece as my inspiration. Kara Walker does these pretty whimsical paintings that have really weird parts that it takes some time to notice.
The photo I used as a reference was one of our engagement photos shot by Melissa Johnstone. In the photo Ken has his arms crossed. When I drew it out it created this weird lump/boob thing that I felt fit with Kara Walker's weirdness...so I kept it!
