Alternate Composing | Art-202
Alternative Ways to Compose Composing without cropping with the edge and selective completion as a means of composing: http://pxstudio.us/powerpoint/alternate-composing.pptx Generally, most figure studies either include the entire figure with minimal activity in the ground, or… The edge crops the figure for its abstract potential
Material List for Color Drawing_Art-202 Figure Drawing
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Art-202: Example of Drawing Torso
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Guidelines for Sighting | Art-202
Drawing or representing a three-dimensional object on a two-dimensional surface requires in essence a language translation. You are translating a three-dimensional form into a language that will be effective on a two-dimensional surface….Drawing paper. Some of you may feel like your drawings are much more successful when you draw from a photograph as a reference. […]
Five Minute Portrait | Art-202
Andrew Loomis’s Drawing | Art-202
Defining Beauty: Andrew Loomis – Women http://underpaintings.blogspot.com/2009/11/defining-beauty-andrew-loomis-women.html Andrew Loomis – Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth How To Draw A Head
Cylindrical Form | Art-202 – Fall 2014
We picture the human figure as a series of geometric forms. The underlying geometric form is the cylinder. By drawing a human body in cylindrical form, you become aware not only of the body’s contours, but its dimensions as well.
Structural Line Study | Art-202
Hold the pencil far from its tip, sometimes using the little or ring finger against drawing paper/board to support the hand. Start the drawing with light, long straight lines; go for simple and big shape only. Carefully find center line of the head and torso as well as the lines connecting the symmetrical body parts, […]
Comparative Proportions in the Male and Female Figure | A-202 / Fall 2014
As you begin your exploration of the human figure, it is helpful to have information that furthers your understanding of basic proportional relationships. While the idealized canon of proportions tells us that a standing adult figure is 8 head-lengths tall, reality and experience tells us that many figures are closer to 7 ½ heads tall, […]