... them. Figure 4.12 below
is a drawing of a head from the
front and the side.
Figure 4.12 A head from the front and side.
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Hands, Feet, and Head
Although there are individual vari-
ations, most heads ... sources for draw-
ing hands is to draw your own
hand. You can also try drawing
your friends’ hands. Figure 4.2
shows several hands drawn from
different angles. Try drawing...
... proportions of the
figure (see Figure 2.25).
Figure 2.24 The action
line establishes the
dynamics of the figure.
Figure 2.25 Capture the
gesture with the simpli-
fied skeleton.
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Figure Drawing with ... conjunction
with Figure Artist.
Figure 2.2 Make your skeleton the correct proportions.
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Figure Construction
STEP-BY-STEP
1
Start by creating a pose in Figure Artist, si...
... Human Figure
An eight-heads-high figure might
be the ideal height, but in some
cases it might not be ideal enough.
Fashion drawings, for example,
may use a character that is closer
to eight-and-a-half ... female figures to
show some other interesting facts.
✎ The male figure is
about three head-
widths wide at the
shoulders and only
about two to two-and-
a-half wide at the hips.
✎ The...
... the figure.
Figure 6.23 Light and shadow create shapes on the
figure.
Figure 6.24 The contrast is increased in the figure to
show clearly the shapes of the light side and the dark
side.
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Figure ... drawing,
often the artist will want to repre-
sent the figure as a three-dimen-
sional element of the picture.
Compositionally, this means that
the drawing will take into account...