Page 31 - Drawing Made Easy

Sketch the head, and use the guidelines to place the rest of the body as you see them in that specific pose. One head length down from the bottom of her chin might line up with the top of the knee, for instance. But you're still drawing the largest shapes first, and you're still giving yourself guidelines for placing the body parts. If you work this way, starting with the large shapes and then giving yourself guidelines for the other body parts before you draw them, most of your proportion problems will vanish immediately. Sometimes, though, you'll find that even when you draw the body parts within your very carefully measured guidelines, they still don't look right. In my experience, two things are usually to blame. Often, I won't have measured correctly. Page 31 of 37