Students will learn how to draw human figures. Students will learn how to draw lines of action and directional lines of the body and its parts. The students will learn how to do this by printing out figures and drawing on top of the print. The line of action will be an imaginary line that travels through the body. Students will learn how to block in areas of the body in terms of breaking it up into shapes. Students will draw a shape for the torso, pelvis, and head on top of the major line of action. Students will then make shapes for the different parts of the arms and legs. Students will learn the basic proportions of the standing human figure. Students will learn how to do quick and loose gesture drawing in different poses. Students will learn different methods to create foreshortening in figure drawing. Foreshortening is when parts of the body appear shorter because they are in perspective. Students will try the coil drawing method and putting parts of the body or the whole body in perspective boxes. Students will practice sketching hands, feet, legs, arms, and the torso. Students will then move into doing longer, more detailed figure drawings on black paper, white paper, and gray paper.
