Lifedrawings

With the right hat you catch the biggest fishes

The perfect hat when fishing is a figure drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

To Amanda this hat is perfect when fishing

Bucket hatA soft cotton hat with a wide, downwards-sloping brim. Two metal eyelets are commonly placed on each side of the hat so that it is cool to wear on hot days.

When humiliation started at school

Esmeralda in a dunce cap is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Esmeralda humiliated in a dunce cap

Dunce CapA dunce cap is a hat that was used to punish and humiliate students in school during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is shaped like a cone and often has a big capital 'D' inscribed on the front.

Warming up in a bearskin

Bearkin warm up is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Jane is getting warm in her bearskin cap

BearskinA bearskin is a tall fur cap, usually worn as part of a ceremonial military uniform. Traditionally, the bearskin was the headgear of grenadiers, and is still worn by grenadier and guards regiments in various armies.

How to pull a rabbit out of a top hat

Pulling a rabbit out of a top hat is a figure drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

A magician uses a top hat to pull a rabbit out of it,
here we have magically pulled out Malin

Top HatA top hat, beaver hat, high hat silk hat, cylinder hat, chimney pot hat or stove pipe hat is a tall, flat-crowned, broad-brimmed hat, predominantly worn from the latter part of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century.

She wanted to be called Babe Ruth

Model Ruth wearing a baseball cap is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Ruth likes to play baseball

Baseball capA baseball cap is a type of soft cap with a rounded crown and a stiff bill eyeshade projecting in front.

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An Australian figure posing with an Akubra

The Akubra hat is a figure drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Jane posing in her Akubra hat

AkubraAkubra is an Australian brand of bush hat, whose wide-brimmed styles are a distinctive part of Australian culture, especially in rural areas. The name is believed to be derived from an Aboriginal word for head covering.

You need a classy hat for the horse race

Life drawing model in an Ascot cap is a croquis sketch by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Belinda wearing an Ascot cap

Ascot capThe Ascot cap, also known as the Cuffley cap or Lippincott cap is a hard cap, similar to the flat cap, but distinguished by its hardness and rounded shape.
Read more on wikipedia.

A relic from the fallen Soviet Union

Ushanka is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Gertrud in an russian ushanka hat, the Soviet model.

UshankaAn Ushanka is a Russian fur hat with fold down ear flaps.

That girl was a real swinger

Maggie swinging in a rope,
wearing a straw hat

BoaterBoater is a flat-brimmed and flat-topped straw hat, formerly worn by seamen, and now mostly at summer regattas or garden parties, often with a ribbon in club or college colors.

Nude Smurfs are rare

Nude Smurf in a Phrygian Cap is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Veronica in her Phrygian cap

Phrygian CapA Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap pulled forward. In sculpture, paintings and caricatures it represents freedom and the pursuit of liberty. The popular cartoon characters The Smurfs wear white Phrygian caps.

Scottish women does not wear kilts

Balmoral Bonnet is a life drawing sketch by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Mia is Scottish and so is her cap

Balmoral bonnetTraditional Scottish bonnet or cap worn with Scottish Highland dress.

Impersonating one of the most famous figures in history

Nude model in a bicorne is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Belinda likes the look of Napoleon

BicorneBicorne is a broad brimmed felt hat with the brim folded up and pinned front and back to create a long horned shape, also known as a cocked hat. Worn by European military officers in the 1790s.

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She was fully dressed in just a fur hat

Life drawing model in Kolpik fur hat is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Cissi is feeling warm in her beautiful fur hat.

KolpikKolpik is a brown fur hat worn by Hassidic Jews.

Feeling light as a feather after dropping 3 stone

Light as a feather is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Marylin looking slim after shedding 3 stone
(42 pounds or 19 kg)

MARYLIN: I never knew I was obese until I saw one of the artist's life drawings of me. I couldn't believe that was me so I looked att all the other artist's drawings of me, and hey, I was obese! I never realized I was that big!

Well, three months later, here I am, 40 pounds lighter.

And I feel light as a feather.

It's great being a life drawing model...

A military hat makes you feel in control

Life drawing model in a french military hat is a croquis sketch by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Yvette in a french military hat

French military hatA French military hat with a flat, circular top and visor.

Deckchair

Cissi getting a sun tan

Deckchair The classical deckchair is wooden construction, a folding chair meant for leisure, originally on a big cruise ship's deck, which explains the origin of its name. It is easily transportable and stackable, although notouriously difficult to unfold and fold up.

Sitting high on a bar stool

The bar stool is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Madeleine on a bar stool

Bar StoolBar stools are a type of tall stool, often with a foot rest, which because of their height and narrowness are designed for seating in a public house or bar.

Horses can sleep standing

Sleeping standing is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta.

No chairs for model Eva and she cannot sleep standing.
Horses can.

These artists are driving me crazy. For months there has been lots of chairs here and to pose sitting in a chair is heaven. Now the only chairs in here are those occupied by the drawing artists. And I can't sleep standing.

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The Club Chair

Club chair is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Liz is trying to find her position in the club chair

The Club chairClub chairs get their name from chairs that were found in old world gentlemen's clubs where the men would get away and smoke cigars and knock back a few drinks with their buddies.

Beanbag

Vera almost drowns in her bean bag

Bean bagBean bag originated way back in 1960's and were initially called as sac chairs.

Farthingale Chair

A dejected Pia in a stylish chair

Farthingale ChairThe Farthingale chair was introduced as a chair for ladies in the late 16th century and was named in England, probably in the 19th century, for its ability to accommodate the exceptionally wide-hooped skirts known as farthingales.

Rex chair

Rex Chair REX Chair is one of the most famous Slovenian industrial design items. In 1952 the Rex chair was designed by architect and designer Niko Kralj.

The Savonarola Chair

The Savonarola chair Also known as scissors chair, Dante chair, or X-chair). Also known as a Savonarola or Dante chair in Italy, or a Luther chair in Germany.It was known in Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece.

The Recliner

Mandy relaxes in the recliner

The ReclinerA recliner is an armchair that reclines when you lower the seat back and raises its front. It has a backrest that can recline, and often a footrest that can be extended by means of a lever on the side of the seat or defer automatically when the back is reclined.

The Butterfly Chair

Mona wanted to bring the butterfly chair home

The butterfly chairThe butterfly chair The butterfly chair 1938 was designed by three designers. Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy. The armchair has been produced in many parts of the world and came from U.S. Knoll to Europe.

The Hill House Chair

Please, Mathilda, the chair is not ment to be sat on!

The Hill House Chair
The Hill House Chair was designed in 1902 by the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Mackintosh's high, narrow Hill House chair was meant to be decorative - not to be actually sat on

The Swan Chair

Swan lake is a ballet favorite of Melanie.
Here in front of the Swan Chair

The Swan Chair
The Swan was designed by Danish architect Arne Jacobsen in 1957.
Arne Jacobsen said that the chair looked like the queen of birds with uplifted wings and named it "The Swan".

One armed chair

The Nonconformist chair is a life drawing by artist an illustrator Artmagenta

Model Leila and the one armed chair.
The nonconformist chair

The Nonconformist Chair The Nonconformist Chair designed 1926 by irish Eileen Gray.
The chair has only one armrest. It is designed to accommodate the owner's favorite resting position.

The Barelona chair still going strong

Life drawing model sitting in the Barcelona Chair is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Croquis model Gitte sitting in the Barcelona Chair

The Barcelona Chair The Barcelona chair was designed in 1928 by architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, furniture designer. The Barcelona chair is held as one of 1900s design icons and still manufactured under license today.

The Barrel Chair

Cindy with the Barrel Chair

The Barrel Chair The Barrel Chair was created in 1937 by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright

The Breuer chair

Life drawing model with breuer chair is drawn by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Margreth and the breuer chair

The breuer chair:

Marcel Breuer was a Hungerian arcitecht and designer who in 1928 designed the Cesca chair. It is maybe the world's most popular chair and is also known as the breuer chair.

Nude in armchair 406

Nude model in armchair 406 is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Nelly tries armchair 406

Armchair 406Alvar Aalto is a Finnish architect and designer that 1939 designed Armchair 406

This is the chair of chairs

Chair no. 14 is a life drawing sketch by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Croquis model Laura with Chair no. 14.

Coffee Shop Chair no. 14 Michael Thonet, a German-Austrian cabinet maker, designed this chair in 1859. Chair no. 14 is still called the "chair of chairs".

The Tulip Chair

The Tulip Chair and
life drawing model Greta

The Tulip ChairEero Saarinen, a Finnish American designer and architect, designed the Tulip chair in 1956.

Three-legged chairs can be somewhat unstable.

Ant chair is a life drawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Life drawing model Amanda and the Ant Chair

Ant ChairArne Jacobsen designed the Ant chair in 1952. The original was designed with three legs instead of four, but in the 1980s it was converted to a four-legged version.

Ovalia Egg Chair

Ovalia Egg Chair and croquis model Lena

Ovalia Egg ChairRecognized everywhere is Henrik Thor-Larsen's armchair Ovalia, which many called the Egg, designed in the 1968th.

Chair Seven

Chair Seven and life drawing model Eva

Chair SevenSeven is a chair designed by Danish designer and architect Arne Jacobsen 1955.

The lady javelin thrower

A woman throwing a javelin. Croquis by Artmagenta.

The posing model was told to act as a javelin thrower, but
I don't think she knows what that means!

I'm dressed in my best parfume only

In the head of the posing nude model:
- I'm dressed in my best parfume only.

That really is a rapid-moving posture

Rapid posture. Figure drawing from ArtMagenta.com

Today's model is Marie and she is a nanny from Klippan

I swear this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

On the mind of the posing model:
- I swear this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

My Grandma had a chair like this

In the head of the posing model:
- My Grandma had a chair like this.

The Long Jumper

Long Jump

Long Jump Long Jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength, and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point. This event has been an Olympic medal event since the first modern Olympics in 1896 and a medal event for women since 1948.

World Record:
Men 8.95 meters
Women 7.52 meters

Reaching out for your phone can be dangerous, at least if you are driving

Reaching for the phone is a croquis by Artmagenta

- It's my phone calling. Will you kill me if I take the phone
and destroy this posture?

Sweets can damage your health

No more sweets is a life drawing by Artmagenta

In the head of the model:
- Sweets can damage your health

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It's all about scoring

The soccer player is a life drawing by Artmagenta

If I don't score this one I'll quit soccer

I saw Maradona do this

Impersonating Maradona is a lifedfawing by artist and illustrator Artmagenta

Mona trying to impersonate Maradona

Scratching on a blackboard

There's an annoying sound when that artist draws with his crayon.
Like when you scratch on a blackboard.

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The grammar of body language

Body language:
A threatening posture

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Rocking chair

Amanda in her rocking chair

Rocking Chair Historians can only trace the rocking chair's origins to North America during the early 18th century. They were originally used in gardens and were just ordinary chairs with two rockers at their bottoms. It was in 1725 that early rocking chairs first appeared in England. The production of wicker rocking chairs reached its peak in America during the middle of the 18th century. These wicker rockers, as they were popularly known, were famous for their craftsmanship and creative designs.

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