Pencil Art Workshop: Techniques, Ideas, and Inspiration for Drawing and Designing with Pencil by Matt Rota

Author:Matt Rota [Rota, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Published: 2017-06-01T04:00:00+00:00

Photo reference for a figure in motion

Drawing a person who is not stationary is a challenge. After capturing the initial gesture, watch as the person moves around, perhaps walking or moving in a contained area or sitting and shifting positions. Focus on one part of the person at a time. Draw the face and head until they shift, then move on to another area—the hand, torso, legs, or feet. If the head shifts back to its original pose, resume drawing the face, adding more details, such as a shadow, the texture of the hair, and a refined, more accurate expression. Build all of this on top of the initial gesture, and erase the original drawing as you slowly refine it.

Try drawing someone walking by. Capture the impression and then continue to fill in details as the person walks—the style of clothing, shoes, haircut, and facial expression. Apply all of these details to the initial gesture, even though the pose continues to change as your subject walks.

Drawing a figure in motion is not like capturing the exactness of a stationary person. The looseness of the sketch conveys the fleeting quality of motion. If the walking figure is drawn as precisely as a stationary person, the drawing will feel frozen and stiff and not in motion at all.

Stick with the figure as long as possible (and as long as is polite). Capture as much detail as possible. Portions of the drawing will be more complete than others. If a hand or head moves, don’t avoid redrawing it; you may end up with several outlines of the same object—a sort of document of the shifting position of the figure, which can be interesting. These should not be treated as precious drawings; correcting, adjusting, overlapping, or starting a section and then abandoning it are all part of the process.

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