Anatomy

Good stuff!

Jim Lee show how to draw hands

Many people think that hands are difficult to draw. Jim Lee from Marvel comics shows how he breaks a hand down into a simple pentagonal shape first.

Watch this video and have a go at it.

Post any drawings you do to your journal for this week and reflect on what you have learned.

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Cylinder Construction

See how the use of cylinders and topological lines helps as a foundation for the under-drawing of this arm.

You may do this in Life Drawing and use it for all your character design work.

Drawing Techniques

This page is designed to show students various methods of drawing the human form.

Tools Required:

Drawing tablet (digital)

Sketch paper
Pencil/Pen/Charcoal
Eraser

DRILL #1.1 - Figure Breakdown (Head)

Breaking down the human form into primitive shapes trains your brain to recognise patterns in human anatomy.

This method teaches you to:

Draw a sphere that represents the head or 'cranial mass'.
Draw a horizontal line to identify the brows and ears.
Split that line with a vertical stroke that divides the nose in two.
Cut the sides of the sphere off with two vertical lines on either side of the 'cross' to define the shape of the skull.
Use two horizontal lines to split the face into thirds, identifying the hairline and tip of the nose.
Draw a box shape to represent the jaw.
Fill in the neck and shoulder area.

TASK: Watch the video below up to 3.57, follow the instructions to draw the human head.

DRILL #2 - How Many Heads Tall?

One method of mapping out the human form is by defining height and body proportion using the 'how many heads tall' technique.

The images below show various bodies being measured by the height (and width) of its head.
Old standards used for determining average height is between 7.5 to 8 heads tall.

TASK: Draw over the images below in a drawing app, dividing them up by the size of their head.

Then answer the following questions:

How many heads tall is each body?

DRILL #3 - Map out Bodies using shapes

Once you've identified the height of your human form, you can build on top of this using basic shapes.

The examples below illustrate how different body types can be broken down into basic shapes.

TASK: Use an image from the section below and break it down into basic shapes.
Use the images above as reference.

Notes: Connecting shapes to complete the form

Once you've constructed the human form out of basic shapes, you can sketch over them to complete the form like the examples below.

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