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Drawing tutorial 1
By William Li (lothlorien@fenyx.com), Gallery 6.
Copyright 2001 William Li.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/index.html
1st page: Introduction and Pose - 2nd page: Body Language - 3trd page: Balance - 4th page: Motion and Action + Construction (The Skeleton) - 5th page: Body Building + Solid Masses - 6th page: Variations
| Motion and action The body is a supple and agile system, influenced by gravity. It has no natural rigid position. |
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First image shows a exaggerated walking gait. Notice how the hip joints move because of gravity. The motion of the shoulders usually move in reverse to the hip joints. The second image shows a sideways lying person, resting on 1 arm. This causes the rest of the body (ribcage) to hang on the resting shoulder. Also, the spine column is somewhat flexible, it can be bent a little. |
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3. Construction To construct something you must understand it. So when you want to draw a human body you should at least know a little bit how it is made up. |
| The skeleton At the basis of the body is the skeleton of course. In the stick figure system we already saw something of it. Now we go more into detail. The human body consists of the following characteristic parts: |
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Front view 1. head (black) 2. ribcage (blue) 3. spine (blue) 4. pelvis (blue) 5. joints (red) 6. arms (green) 7. hands (green) 8. legs (green) 9. feet (green) |
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Side view Note the curve of the spine (the arms are left out, since the focus here is on the spine). |
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We can use a simplified form of the skeleton when we want
to setup a human figure: This body setup gives a bit more insight now. |
Next lesson: Body Building + Solid masses setup in practice
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