COMEDY FIGURE DRAWING MODELS: SLOUCHERS

I love comedy figure drawing models who slouch. A good sloucher, like the one above, suggests a story. 

She could be the sultry but bored girl of the lurid 50s paperbacks...or she could be a sweet and innocent college student who can't figure out why men are always acting strange around her.

   

Here's (above) another good sloucher. I'd team her up with a Mr. Meek-type. 

Imagine her casting an angry, brooding look at him while he cheerfully vacuums in the foreground. 

 The best funny slouchers are usually models with good poise. It takes skill to be a good sloucher, even when you're portraying someone with a lack of skill.

 For comedy modeling I usually prefer draped models but for adults who are this skilled I'll make an exception.

The best models parody slouching...they make a cartoon of it. You don't want real slouching...that's depressing.

You'd think kids would be good slouch models, but most of them aren't. In this pose (above) the kid suggests no story, projects no personality. It's worth repeating...it's not enough to slouch, you have to be an interesting person who slouches.

Ah, now we've got something. This kid (above) is a mischievous sloucher. She has a secret that she won't tell. A story is implied.

Haw! Take an interesting kid sloucher...draped, of course... and put her on oversize furniture and you have a terrific combination.

This model (above) isn't old, but it's fun to imagine an old model taking a pose like this. I think of him as a grouchy old man in a waiting room. He's sitting next to a bothersome kid who he tries to ignore.

Old people can be good comedy models but they have to have some interesting attribute apart from their age.

My guess is that some of the best old comedy models are actually young people pretending to be old. Theirs is a caricature of the real thing, and that's what comedy is all about.