We will be doing more figure drawing today, using painting.tube. We can try out some of the following techniques for our quicker sketches.
- Starting with the head first and drawing reference lines for the spine and centre of face.
- Stick men. Draw the joints and eliptical shapes for the torso, pelvis and head. You can also draw a marker line for the angle of the shoulders and pelvis.
- Drawing without removing the pencil from the page
- Drawing without looking at the page
- Breaking down the figure into 2d or 3d geometric shapes
- Drawing an evenlope which encompases the entire figure, to help with proportions and placing on page.
- Gesture drawing. The searching line, organic line.
- Thinking about shading techniques such as blended, circulism, hatching, cross-hatching, contour hatching. Maybe stippling for longer drawings.
- Open Drawing and Negative Spaces. For longer drawings, you could try to capture the figure by shading in the negative space or just draw the shaded parts of the body.
- Perspective and foreshortening.