From the course: Drawing Foundations: Figure
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Mapping structure and relationship
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Figure
Mapping structure and relationship
- The body is a beautiful organic architectural structure. Without realizing how the basic skeletal parts relate in space, we can't build a believable body. Just like you can't build a house without a core framework, you can't draw the figure without an awareness of what the skeleton is doing. Building a figure drawing, an artist must actively make horizontal and vertical associations between the joints and space. Think of it as plotting coordinates on a map, or constellation points in the night sky. These landmarks are at the joints. I like to refer to these as access points. I have this beautiful image here of our model Sarah, and what I'm going to do is take a piece of tracing paper, I'm going to lay it right on top of this image, and I encourage you to try this too with drawings, just to sort of create an overlay that you can work on top of. So the first thing I'm going to do on this overlay is I'm going to plot the joints in space. With this red pencil, I'm making a note of…
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