Figure drawing: Basic Pose and Construction

1. Introduction This method is to help you draw the human form. It is by no means the best way or even a fast way. Instead, this method is aimed at thinking and setting up the human form in a threedimensional space. Classical animation (most notably Disney) uses a similar way of setting up their characters. Using this method will help you form your thoughts on the human body posing on paper rather than in your mind. 2. Basic anatomy Stickfigures Wait, don't go away yet! Let's take a look at stickfigures. Lesson Try to draw these standing stickfigures and see if you master their proportions. Body language Stickfigures, again Now that you know how important it is to master proportions through simple stick figures, we go to the next use of stickfigures: 'the pose'. Stickfigures in action Here are a few examples how you can use a stickfigure to determine a pose. Lesson Try drawing stickfigures in action. Balance When you set up a pose, you will need to take into account its center of gravity.

'All the Wrong Reasons' Everyone makes experimental films when they dream. Dreams are picture-driven, non-linear quilts of movie-like moments sprinkled with cryptic epiphanies. They play nightly in the private cinema of your head but the rub is the audience must be asleep. Then again, maybe sleep, or at least the suspension of conscious thought, is the ideal state for entering such a movie. “All the Wrong Reasons” is an experiment in making a film that feels as if it has percolated up from the subconscious; a dream you can watch with your eyes open. There are almost 3,000 paintings and collages in this film. hetler How to Draw a Face (with pictures) Steps Method 1 of 3: A Female Face, Sketched 1Make a light outline of a face. Heads are never circular, they are oval shaped, like an egg. 12Clean. Method 2 of 3: Male 1Drawing lightly, sketch a circle. 2Draw a line at the middle starting from the top and ending where the chin would be. 11Optional: add shading to the drawing if needed. Method 3 of 3: Female Face 1Draw the shape of the head you have in mind. 2Add lines to determine the center of the face and the position of the eyes. 3Sketch lines to define how wide, tall, and the placement of the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. 4Sketch the shape and appearance of the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and eyebrows. 5Sketch the shape of the hair and neck. 6Use a smaller tipped drawing tool to add the finer details of the face. 7Draw the outline using the sketch as a guide. 8Erase and remove the sketch marks to produce a clean outlined drawing. 9Add color and shading to the drawing. Tips Practice makes perfect.Don't give up. Ad Article Info

Drawing Hands This short tutorial is a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in this tutorials, as well and a great deal of additional material on caricaturing other facial features, posture, hands, expression and more, techniques on drawing from live models, doing caricature for freelance illustration and for MAD Magazine. This is a must have book for anyone interested in caricature, cartooning or humorous illustration. You can order it online here. How to Draw Hands Easily the most asked question I get is “how do you draw caricatures?”. Next to faces, hands are probably the most expressive and intricate part of the human form. I’m a cartoonist at heart, so the hands I draw are not realistic hands by most definitions. Breaking Down Hand Structure Not really much to it, is there? Relationships of Hand Structure

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Portrait drawing: a simple approach Portrait drawing is one of those drawing skills many people get into drawing for. It is so appealing and rewarding being able to draw a portrait of a friend, a lover, a kid in a way that makes them happy and you proud of it. But drawing a portrait that captures the resemblance and the "soul" of a subject it is not an easy task and a skill that for many takes year to master and hone. For this reason I am not going to focus this tutorial on the "capturing the soul" part (at least not for now) and I will instead focus on "getting the proportions right" to at least capture the appearance of your subject (this alone will bring you a long way toward becoming a proficient portrait drawer). In this tutorial I'll examine a method to draw portraits that is suitable for drawing from a picture and from a real person posing for you. I do not want to overwhelm you with details and I'd rather prefer moving rapidly to the drawing, making comments and observations along the way. Lets' get started! Done? 1.

Lackadaisy Expressions Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures.