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Figure Drawing Practice Book

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What is figure drawing?

Figure drawing is the art of sketching the human figure, often done live with a nude model who
is standing or sitting in a pose that emphasizes the figure. This process helps the artist capture
the essence of the human body’s musculature, texture, and postures. It’s a practice with an
emphasis on learning the shape and movement of the human form.
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The benefits of figure drawing

Train your eye as an illustrator to discover how to replicate foundational shapes: the line, the
oval, the square. It might sound basic, but learning to manipulate these shapes is essential for
figure drawing and other forms of drawing too.

● perfection is not the ultimate goal.

● Avoid straight lines
● Always have some type of roundedness to them
● Humans are rarely perfectly symmetrical or proportioned, so drawings that create those
symmetries and proportions can seem uncanny or odd.

Line figure
drawing
Shape
figure drawing

Value - Value
defines how light
or dark a given color
or hue can be. Values
are best
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understood when visualized as a scale or gradient, from dark to
light

1) Walking figure
What shapes can you use to
draw this figure?

Replicate with:
Lines Shapes
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2) Dancing figure

Draw on the image:

● Figure lines
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● Figure shapes

3)
3)
3)
Jumping figure
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Draw on the image:

● Figure lines
● Figure shapes
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4) Running figure

Replicate with:
Lines Shapes
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Drawing #2
Figure Drawing - Due October 6
Drawing will fill space between studio projects and serve as an
opportunity to take a break from studios. The focus of the drawings is
to build skills and techniques.

Students will:
● incorporate a full figure in their drawing.
● Dry media of student’s choice

Think of a person you would like to draw (write down a couple of

ideas. It is a celebrity, or maybe a person you know?).

Why do you want to draw them (Are they important to you? Do they
inspire you?)

What dry media are you going to choose and why (charcoal,
graphite, chalk, etc. )
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What material do you want to draw on?

Some material/surface ideas:

● Newspaper
● When you are using soft media like charcoal or chalk pastel,
working on rougher paper can add texture and interest.
● Instead of always working on plain white paper it can be useful to
experiment with coloured surfaces or to shade or colour a
background before drawing a subject.
● Dark paper can be a very effective background for drawing with
white or light pencil and pastels.

Figure Drawing Artists to look at: ➔ Emma Amos Eva the Babysitter 1973

➔ Lucian Freud, Bella in her Pluto T- Courtesy of Emma Amos, the Amos

Shirt 1995, Tate © The Lucian Freud family, and RYAN LEE Gallery

Archive / Bridgeman Images ➔ Gwen John, The Convalescent 1918–

➔ Lucian Freud, Girl in a Striped 19 Tate

Nightshirt 1983–5 , Tate © The Lucian ➔ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/student-

Freud Archive / Bridgeman Images resource/exam-help/human-figure

➔ Nicole Eisenman (b. 1965), Mermaid Catch,
1996. Oil on canvas. 77½ x 63 in (196.8 x
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160 cm). Estimate: £400,000-600,000.
Offered in Post-War and Contemporary Art
Day Sale on 25 March 2021 at Christie's in
London
➔ Salman Toor (b. 1983), Recipe, 2011. Oil on
canvas. 42½ x 38⅛ in (107 x 96.8 cm).
Estimate: £50,000-70,000. Offered in Post-
War and Contemporary Art Day Sale on 25
March 2021 at Christie's in London
➔ Joy Labinjo (b. 1994), No Wahala, 2019. Oil
on canvas. 78⅞ x 59⅛ in (200.3 x 150.2
cm). Estimate: £30,000-40,000. Offered in
20th Century Evening Sale on 23 March
2021 at Christie's in London
➔ https://www.christies.com/features/Eight-
figurative-artists-to-collect-now-11533-3.aspx
➔