Figures in Motion

Last week, you learned that the average human body is 8 heads high, and you drew a proportional figure using the skeleton as your guide.  This gave us a chance to see how the Renaissance artists made their artwork more realistic by studying the human body.  When we drew our figures, we drew them standing straight and facing us.  This week, we will learn to draw a figure that is NOT standing straight and facing us.  We will learn some ways to draw a figure in motion!  

Begin by finding a few figures in magazines.  I put one in your art class packet, but you can find others to practice more.  Look at the figures, and look to see if you can summarize each person with one line.  This line is a GESTURE LINE.  Look at this example:

Next, look around each figure.  Do you see any shapes in the empty spaces around the figure?  Look in between the arms and legs, and see if any shapes stand out.  Practice coloring those shapes in.  Look at this example:  

Finally, look at the shoulders and hips.  Draw a line that connects the shoulders, and draw a line that connects the hips.  They should tilt in opposite ways.  Draw these lines if you can.  Look at these examples:

For your assignment, you will chose ONE figure from your practice papers.  You will be challenged to use the 4 "tricks" we just went over to re-draw the figure on a drawing paper. 

8 Divisions of the Body

Gesture Line

Negative Space

Counterbalance/ Contrapposto

Once you re-draw the figure, you will change the scene.  Make your figure wearing different clothes to match your scene.   Spend time using your best art skills to color evenly and to think about perspective and value.  Look at these examples:

Watch this video to review the "4 tricks" we learned:

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