Drawing the Human Figure

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Drawing the Human Figure

• Prepared by Ryan Ray Fiel
• An Art lesson for 9-12th Grade on Drawing

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Materials needed

• Charcoal/Pencil
• Paper
• Eraser
• Person able to Model

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Model

• Select a model
• Comfortable pose
• Give breaks

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Helpful Hinters...

• Study your subject, watch the overall movement
• Step back and look
• Move around the drawing
• Keep a stiff wrist

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Beginning of Drawing

• Lines of interests and order of placement.
• 1)Spine
• 2)Hips
• 3)Legs
• 4)Shoulders
• 5)Arms
• 6)Neck/Head
• This is what the beginning of your drawing should
  look like

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Drawing the Body (without details)

• After line drawing, start with the actual body
  parts
• Dont get too detailed yet
• Draw big areas
• Start with chest cavity
• Then do legs and arms
• Now do the neck and head
• Next box in areas for hands and feet
• Work your way to the little areas

• Move around
• Dont stay in one area too long
• Once this stage is complete, step back and look
• For more help refer back to my hints, click here

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Stepping back to LOOK

• Hints when looking
• Look at the drawing on as a whole
• Are proportions the same
• Look at negative areas (spaces in between legs or
  arms)
• If it doesnt look right and you cant figure it
  out, ask someone else to have a look.

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Drawing the head

• Website on drawing heads http//www.anticz.com/he
  ads.htm

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When finished

• Step back, look at it and ask these questions..
• Does it look the same?
• Is it shaded the same?
• How does the face look?
• Are the negative areas the same?
• If all of these are good, then great! Youve
  completed the assignment. If not, try to make
  the necessary changes.

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Starting Details

• Begin looking at shaded regions
• Start shading areas that are light and work your
  way to the darker areas.
• Try to shade alike regions at the same time.

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Chart on Assignment
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Hope it was easy for you to follow!

• THE END!!!

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References

• flamingtext.com
• Human head http//www.anticz.com/heads.htm
• Mr. Melvin- My first college art instructor
• Mrs. Rozycki- My High School art teacher.
• To go back to front of slide show, click here..