![]() So, the technique is to let yourself screw up the first drawing. Once you start to understand how the shapes work together in the first drawing, then your second drawing will be much more confident, and you will make simpler, more accurate lines. Have you ever seen those wooden models of people in artists’ supply stores? You are going to imagine the people you draw like that and make your first drawing of them as a sketch of all those shapes. You can move those shapes around to draw people in different positions. You are going to break the body down into some basic shapes now. But some of you may be saying, “Okay, so the head is one eighth the length of the body… so what?” Okay, so now that you’ve got a basic way to check your body part measurements, you’ve got a way to check what you’ve drawn to see if it measures up (so to speak). The bottom of their rib cage would be at the 5/8ths mark. The top quarter of them is just above the center of their chest… about where their shirt would open if they had the top button undone. ![]() The head is exactly one-eighth of their length. The bottom part of their knees (or just their knees if you want to keep things simple) would be one-quarter of their height. The top part of their hips would be exactly half their height. Break their body down into eight segments, like they were standing next to a height chart, but forget about standard heights and just put a ruler with eight segments next to them. To get started understanding proportion (a fancy word for measurements), imagine a person standing up, facing you. Even artists who are good at drawing portraits – at picking up certain personal traits and showing them on paper – sometimes distort the proportions of a person, and it makes an otherwise excellent drawing look weird. If the proportions are off the person looks like a monster, or just odd. The hardest part of drawing people is getting their proportions right. When you are brand-new to drawing, the easiest way to start drawing people is to get some basic measurements down. Then you can put people in different poses and still have them look realistic, or you can change their proportions if you want them to look more like cartoons. How to Draw a Person: Drawing a person becomes much easier as soon as you know how to break the human form down into smaller pieces.
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