Figure Drawing, Continued
Reducing the
If you find drawing the human figure intimidating, examine the figure in
figure to basic
terms of basic forms. The human figure is a combination of basic forms.
forms
Reducing the figure to a series of cubes, spheres, cones, or cylinders
simplifies the task of rendering figures by breaking the task into manageable
segments.
Figure 3-29 shows how to reduce the human figure to basic forms.
Figure 3-29.—The human form reduced to basic shapes.
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