Sketching-People

COMBINING FORMS
When constructing a drawing, you don’t have to settle
on just spheres or boxes or cylinders; you use all of them
in tandem as appropriate for the subject.
If you are drawing a tall, thin woman, it would be suitable
to use cylinders for the arms and legs. If you are drawing a
fat man, spheres would be better. However, even on the tall,
thin figure, you will find areas where spheres and boxes best
define that part of the form. You have to analyze the
subject and decide how to best describe it.
PRACTICE USING
TRACING PAPER
Use tracing paper to define basic
forms over photos or draw on the
images in a magazine or newspaper.
BASIC FORMS
This figure is broken down into various
basic forms: a spherical form for the
upper torso, a box form for the hips
and cylinders for the arms and legs.