From the course: Drawing Foundations: Figure
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Transitioning volumes: The dramatic pose
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Figure
Transitioning volumes: The dramatic pose
- When the model's body has a more dramatic gesture, we can practice placing our 3D volumes in perspective and finding transitional shapes to connect them. In this pose you can imagine the torso as a twisted pink pearl eraser. The weight of the torso is sent out over the side of the pelvis and the connectors here spiral and stretch. If we look at this pose and we start to imply some simple volumes, an oval for the head, an egg shape for the rib cage. When we create an egg for the rib cage, we're not only creating an egg in this fashion but we're thinking of how it would appear in space on this angle. And what helps us do that is imagining lines wrapping around it. Cross contour lines wrapping around this egg shape. So when I take this idea and apply it to the figure, it helps us realize her body's position in space, and also helps us create more three dimensionality to the torso. We come down to the area of the pelvis. We can also start this off with an oval shape. And even the pelvis…
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