tailieunhanh - U-05 ADVANCED: FACES & FIGURES

Every artist who aspires to include people in his or her drawings needs to become proficient in drawing the various components of human anatomy. In this project you explore the basic shapes of a leg and foot and then add graduated shading with hatching and crosshatching to illustrate the three dimensional forms. Skills incorporated into this lesson include: identifying accurate proportions, drawing with contour lines, planning shading strategies, adding graduated values with hatching and crosshatching, and applying foreshortening as a component of perspective | Brenda Hoddinott U-05 ADVANCED FACES FIGURES Every artist who aspires to include people in his or her drawings needs to become proficient in drawing the various components of human anatomy. In this project you explore the basic shapes of a leg and foot and then add graduated shading with hatching and crosshatching to illustrate the three dimensional forms. Skills incorporated into this lesson include identifying accurate proportions drawing with contour lines planning shading strategies adding graduated values with hatching and crosshatching and applying foreshortening as a component of perspective. This project is divided into two sections OUTLINING SHAPES You visually identify the exterior shapes and forms of legs and feet as defined by bones fat and muscles. DEFINING THE FORMS OF THE LEG AND FOOT WITH SHADING You identify where the highlights and the light and dark values are located based on a dominant light source from the right. You use hatching and crosshatching to realistically illustrate the various forms. Suggested supplies include 2H HB 2B 4B and 6B pencils vinyl and kneaded erasers good quality drawing paper such as smooth hot-pressed watercolor paper. 7 PAGES - 12 ILLUSTRATIONS This project is recommended for artists from age 12 to adult with advanced drawing skills as well as home schooling academic and recreational fine art educators. Published by Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers Halifax NS Canada Revised 2006 - 2 - OUTLINING SHAPES You need to be able to visually identify the exterior shapes and forms of legs and feet as defined by bones fat and muscles before you can draw them realistically. Legs come in many shapes and sizes from the short chubby legs of a tiny infant to the long well-defined muscular legs of an athletic Grab your drawing materials and follow along with me to draw a leg and foot. Thank you to my son Ben for allowing me to borrow one of his legs. 1 Lightly sketch the outline of the individual shapes of the leg and foot. Observe the .