THE HUMAN FIGURE
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"Quick and Simple Figures - Part One."
"Quick and Simple Figures - Part One."
Proportions of the Human Figure
Foreshortening:
Anything that is pointing towards you will look shorter - like the foot on the right.
- Use the length of the head as a measuring unit.
- An average person's height is 6 or 7 times the length of their head.(Marked by the short dotted lines)
- The skull is egg shaped. The dotted lines show the middle of the face and the eye line (half way down the skull).
- The spine (including the neck) is the only flexible part of the skeleton diagram.
- All the straight lines represent bones. When drawing figures in different positions, keep the shoulder and hip bones as straight lines (they don't bend where they meet the spine.)
- The joints (elbows, knees, shoulders and hips) are shown by black dots.
- Elbows come just above the waist
- Wrists come below the hips
- Hands are as big as a face
- Feet are as long as a head
Foreshortening:
Anything that is pointing towards you will look shorter - like the foot on the right.