How to draw the figure?

How to draw the Figure? BEFORE you make a line you must have a clear conception of what you want to draw. In your mind it is necessary to have an idea of what the figure to be drawn is doing. Study the model from different angles. Sense the nature and condition of the action, or inaction. This conception is the real beginning of your drawing.

How to draw the figure? # 1

1. Give due consideration to the placing of your drawing on the paper, for balance and arrangement. Make two marks to indicate the length of the drawing.

2. Block in with straight lines the outline of the head. Turn it carefully on the neck, marking its center by drawing a line from the Adam's apple to the pit between the collar bones.

3. From the pit of the neck make one line giving the direction of the shoulders, keeping in mind the marking of its center, which should be the pit between the collar bones.

4. Indicate the general direction of the body by outlining to the hip and thigh, at its outermost point, the side that carries the weight.

How to draw the figure? #2

5. Follow this' by outlining the opposite inactive side of the body, comparing the width with the head.

6. Then, crossing again to the action side of the figure, drop a line to the foot. You now have determined the balance, or equilibrium of the figure.

7. Carry the line of the inert side to the knee, over and upward to the middle of the figure.

8. On the outer side, drop a line to the 0ther foot.

How to draw the figure? # 3

9. Starting again with the head, and thinking of it as a cube

with front, sides, top, back and base, draw it on a level

with the eye, foreshortened or in perspective.

10. Outline the neck and from the pit of the neck draw a line

down the center of the chest.

11. At a right angle to this line, where stomach and chest

join, draw another line and then draw lines to indicate

the rib cage as a block, twisted, tilted or straight, accord

ing to its position.

12. Now draw the thigh and the leg which support the·

greatest part of the weight of the body, making the thigh

round, the knee square, the calf of the leg triangular and

the ankle square. Then draw the arms.

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How to Draw the Figure?

How to draw the Figure? BEFORE you make a line you must have a clear conception of what you want to draw. In your mind it is necessary to have an idea of what the figure to be drawn is doing. Study the model from different angles. Sense the nature and condition of the action, or inaction. This conception is the real beginning of your drawing.

How to Draw the Figure

How to Draw the Figure?

Pencil Sketches and Drawings

Drawing is a visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, chalk, pastels, markers, stylus, or various metals like silverpoint. An artist who practices or works in drawing may be referred to as a draftsman or draughtsman.



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