Drawing: The Only
Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to Be by Kathryn Temple
In my last blog, we learned how to draw a face.
In this blog, we’ll continue and learn how to draw the rest of the body. In Kathryn
Temple’s book Drawing: The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the
Artist You've Always Wanted to Be, she delves into the idea in depth. In
chapter seven of her book she says, “Simple shapes will help you draw the human
body…Their necks, arms, torsos, and legs are all a series of tubes. The hips,
shoulders, and elbows – all of the joints – are made out of spheres” (Temple,
92). Temple continues by showing simple steps on how to draw these tubes and spheres,
outlining them, and adding finishing touches to create a more detailed body.
In my attempt, I’ve decided to draw a body,
but add on to it by combining the skills I’ve learned like landscape and
shadowing. First, I start by building the body. I use the tubes and spheres as Temple
described to make a skeleton of the body. After I had the shape I desired, I
outlined the body and added details such as clothing, curves, and finishing
touched to smooth out the figure. Then I created the landscaping in the
background with the landscaping rules I learned from one of my previous blogs.
Finally I finished the tree upon which my figure had been resting on.
How would you combine your drawing skills from my previous blogs to create something new? What would you draw, and why?
Works Cited
Temple, Kathryn. Drawing:
The Only Drawing Book You'll Ever Need to Be the Artist You've Always Wanted to
Be. Sterling Children's Book, 2014.
Its incredible how just a few little changes can make a picture that much more life-like. The tubes and spheres representing a human body, is it like a stencil or is it just a quick outline that helps draw the details on the rest of the sketch. Good work
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