Changing gender

I decided to look into the male body, starting off by taking a photoshoot of a nude male. I decided to experiment particuarly with light in my photoshoot to see what different tones and shadows I could create to work from. After printing the photographs I decided to work from them in the same scale to my female drawings and to create the intensity of the shadows and tones in the photographs just as well with ink and charcoal.

I prefer these drawings to my female drawings I did before hand but I dont think that is due to the topic of gender. I think because I used alot of light in my photoshoot my drawings, from this, contain more shadows and detail.