Drawing figures and objects

Drawing figures and objects

Draw figures and objects from basic shapes

Objectives

• Enumerate the basic shapes and forms that composed human figures.

• Follow through the steps on how to draw human figures from basic shapes.

• Value the importance of shapes and forms to draw a human figure.

So much of drawing really comes down to being able to “SEE”. Recognizing shapes and their spacial relationships is the biggest challenge. We start with the idea of a shape. The shape is a two-dimensional thing. You can measure it by its height and its width. Technically, anything we draw on paper is by its very nature two-dimensional.

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What are the three basic shapes?

Forms are three-dimensional. Statues carved out of stone have form. By scientific definition, nothing on paper can have form. Even computer artwork is not in fact 3-D, because as it appears on the screen it has only two dimensions. 

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What are the basic geometric forms?

• It is not terribly hard to draw the basic shapes as just shapes. It takes a little bit more practice to draw them as forms, and then start assembling them together. Then we can start refining the way they fit together, and before long we can figure out fore-shortening, and difficult angles in all our drawings.

Practice makes perfect. Warm-ups are helpful. Practice drawing a shape and adding to it another, and another. Have fun, discover, and let your hand, wrist and arm get comfortable with these shapes

The next thing we have to get familiar with is the concept of “Drawing through” and using “construction lines “.

Drawing through

Drawing through, means that we go right ahead and draw lines that would actually be visible only from the other side. t’s important for the artist to be able to visualize the features on the other side of a form as well as those in the front. 

Construction Lines

Construction lines are all the lines that are helping us establish the structure. But especially those like the “mid-line” which shows where the body would be divided right down the middle, or the “eye line” which is a line that circumscribes horizontally around the head at the level of the eyes. 

MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE

Write TRUE if the statement is correct, if the statement is false, change the underlined word to make the statement correct. 

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Do you still have questions?