Figure Drawing Methods For Artists: Over 130 Methods For Sketching, Drawing, And Artistic Discovery

Learn over 130 simple methods for quickly rendering the human form. When we try to draw a person, we typically confront various challenges: The proportions need to be correct, the attitude must be clear and vivid, and the face should show resemblance and be expressive. Doing this takes courage. Yet with a little practice and training, you canquickly learn to draw figures in a wide variety?f styles with just a few key characteristic strokes.Figure Drawing Methods for Artists shows both beginners and experienced artists to do just that. The various sketching methods are divided into 12 general approaches, including:Shrink-quickly draw miniature figures to develop a sense for proportions and an eye for postureOutline-create simple, concise figures from three-dimensional entitiesJoin together-consider the limbs on a figure as reduced singular shapes that are combined into many variationsFill in-use common geometric shapes to serve as outside shapes into which a figure is fitBandage-using circular, swinging movements, wrap lines around a body to show its shape At the center of this collection isnot the perfect figure, but the joy of drawing, and how, with simple methods, drawing people is possible. By reducing your work to a few lines and using clear contours and simple surfaces, the human figure emerges, constructed and elaborated.About the AuthorPeter Boerboom studied between 1991 and 1998 at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich under Professor Sauerbruch. He also studied Communication Design at the Fachhochschule f? Gestaltung in Munich. He is a founding member of the artist group Department for Public Appearances and works together with Carola Vogt on art and photography projects.Tim Proetel is Speaker of Art at the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research in Munich. He also teaches art and theater at the Gymnasium Ottobrunn and teaches a basic course for artistic design at the Munich Art Academy.