SVHS ART
Mr. Anderson's Classes
  • Online Gallery
  • Art I
    • Setting Up your Weebly >
      • Turning in your work
      • Sample Bio Page
      • Documenting Artwork
    • Fabric Landscape
    • Drawing: Shading & Spheres
    • Drawing: The Use of Line
    • Perspective City
    • Drawing: Pen & Ink
    • Self Portrait
    • Pattern
    • Research Artist Page Example >
      • Editing Twitter Template
      • Embedding on Weebly
      • Timeline Examples
      • Places to find information on Artists
    • Painting >
      • Surrealist Landscape
    • Identity Art Piece
  • 3D Design
    • Setting Up your Weebly >
      • Turn in your work
      • Sample Bio Page
      • Documenting Artwork
    • Found Object / Assemblage
    • Cardboard Sculpture
    • Food Sculptures
    • Environmental Art
    • Upcycled Magazine Pottery
    • Figurative Sculpture
    • Carved Tiki
    • Research Artist Page Example >
      • Editing Twitter Template
      • Embedding on Weebly
      • Timeline Examples
      • Places to find information on Artists
    • Dreamcatchers
    • Yarn Coil Baskets
  • Art II
    • Setting Up your Weebly >
      • Turning in your weebly to google classroom
      • Sample Bio Page
      • Documenting Artwork
    • Silverware Value Study
    • Figure Drawing
    • Drawing: Expressive Hands
    • Portrait
    • Skeleton Masterpiece
    • Drawing: Bicycle Study
    • Poster Design
    • Research Artist Page Example >
      • Editing Twitter Template
      • Embedding on Weebly
      • Timeline Examples
      • Places to find information on Artists
    • Painting >
      • Surrealist Landscape
    • Identity Art Piece
  • AP Art
    • Summer Assignment
    • Setting Up your Weebly >
      • Turning in your weebly to goole classroom
      • Sample Bio Page
      • Documenting Artwork
    • Silverware Value Study
    • Figure Drawing
    • Drawing: Expressive Hands
    • Portrait
    • Drawing: Skeleton Masterpiece
    • Drawing: Bicycle Study
    • Poster Design
  • The Art of Tattoo

Figure Drawing

You will create a figure drawing from images of art models that I will supply. While students in college work from live models, you will be provided with printed reference materials, which contain tasteful artistic poses. 

I believe this is an essential art project for many reasons. 

1.     Figure drawing is the traditional cornerstone of all art training and has been a staple of art education for more than 2000 years. The human figure is one of the most enduring themes in the visual arts and offers every challenge an artist could require -perspective, proportion and composition. 
2.     Working from the human figure is important preparation for college art courses, as well as careers in the visual arts. Figure drawing can be applied to animation, portraiture, cartooning and comic book illustration, sculpture, medical illustration, fashion design and many other fields that use depictions of the human form.

 

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Life drawing classes in college often intimidate beginning artists. However, it’s only awkward until the minute your pencil touches the paper. Then it becomes an artistic exercise no different then drawing a still life of a bowl of fruit. You must concentrate on getting the angles correct, the proportions, shading etc. At that point the model is an amazing tool for learning how to draw. Life drawing classes teach far more than drawing from photographs and I encourage you to take them when you can.
Once students have mastered drawing the human form, it becomes so much easier to draw clothed figures. However, if the figure’s proportions are off, the piece will not work no matter how well the clothing is rendered. This is why students will do figure drawing and drape/fabric study before they’re ever asked to draw a clothed figure in an assignment.

Great Site to Practice Figure Drawing

http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

An excellent Figure Drawing Timelapse video

Student Examples

Student Examples in Color

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