30-Minute Drawing for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Lessons & Techniques for Landscapes, Still Lifes, Figures, and More by Jordan DeWilde

Author:Jordan DeWilde [DeWilde, Jordan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Rockridge Press
Published: 2021-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

BONUS CHALLENGE

Add unique characteristics to your portrait. Try sketching details like different hairstyles, facial hair, dramatic makeup, etc. You can refer to photographs or magazine images for inspiration. Use your observation skills to identify basic shapes and forms and sketch these characteristics on your portrait. Draw a few generic faces, which we will use in another chapter.

Exercise 4: The Human Figure in Proportion

The average adult human body is about seven heads tall, so we will use seven ovals of roughly the same size stacked on top of each other to study proportion.

DURATION: 30 minutes

Steps

1.

Lightly draw a stack of seven identical ovals for reference. Draw a guideline halfway through the stack of ovals. This guideline will be the waist.

2.

Draw the arms relaxed with the hands just below the waist. Think of your traditional stick figure, but imagine where the joints would be. Look at your own arm and see how it doesn’t rest as one straight line, but instead is jointed at the elbow. Use two straight lines to represent each arm and oval shapes to draw in the hands. You should not be focused on drawing realistically just yet. First you need to master the proportions and lay a foundation.

3.

Draw the legs and feet similar to how you drew the arms and hands in step 2. Think about how the legs will be posed and where they will connect to the pelvis. The pelvis can be sketched as a rectangular shape below the torso. As you are drawing the legs, think about where the knee might be bent. Use oval shapes to represent the feet.

4.

Using basic ovals and squares, give form to the figure. The torso can be composed of rectangles and squares. The arms gain form when you draw in some ovals, similar to the shape of paper clips. Elevate the stick figure to a figure with more shape.

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