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TVL Illustration NCII – Grade 11
Quarter 2 – Module 3: Drawing in Proportion
First Edition, 2020

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 Illustration
Quarter 2

Module DRAWING IN PROPORTIONS

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T E C H N I C A L VO C A T I O N A L L I V E L I H O O D
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the Illustration 11 Self-Learning Module on Drawing in

Proportions!

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
body of the module:

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies that
will help you in guiding the learners.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their own learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
 For the Learner:

Welcome to the Illustration 11 Self-Learning Module on Drawing in

Proportions!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You
will be enabled to process the contents of the learning material while being an active
learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons:

Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:

A. Differentiate proportion and scaling;
B. discuss the importance of proportion in drawing;
C. layout figures and objects according to proportion.

PRETEST

TRUE OR FALSE. Read each statement carefully. Write TRUE if the statement is
correct and FALSE if it is wrong, write your answer on the space
provided before the number.

_____________1. Emphasis is the relation of the size, amount, or the number of an

individual part in comparison to the whole image.

_____________2. the sighting or measuring method is most common technique to

measure the proportion of your subject, where in artists measure
angles, gauge relative size, and determine how different features line
up on the subject.

_____________3. Proportional drawing promotes accuracy when creating life drawings.

_____________4. In Michelangelo’s Vitruvian Man, you will identify his representation

of ideal human body proportions.

_____________5. The scale is the size of an object relative to another object in an

artwork.
 RECAP
Let’s have a quick review of how much you have learned from our last module
“Identify Appropriate Drawing Media for Illustration”

Direction: Fill in the missing terms and concepts to complete the following
statement. Write your answer on the space provided below.

1. When experimenting or starting out with a specific drawing media, it is not

recommended to buy the ___________________ art supplies.
2. The term “medium” in art is referring to the __________________ or the drawing
supplies the artist use to create an artwork.
3. Different drawing media suits different drawing _________________.
4. Study other ______________ technique on how they apply a specific medium in their
artworks to tell story and how they evoke emotions and learn how their technique
apply to your own technique in drawing.
5. Carbon pencils are darker than a graphite and smoother than ________________,

LESSON

DRAWING IN PROPORTIONS

Have you ever wondered what’s the deal with the artist peering in their subject
using their pencil? Of course, they are not flaunting their professional pencil or just
to look cool while working. They were measuring, artist’s do this to get an accurate
illustration and realism in their artwork. To be accurate means to include details
from your subject to the canvass or drawing surface, and to achieve this, an artist
should be able to understand proportions. In this four-part lesson about drawing in
proportion, we will discuss what is proportion, its importance in every illustration,
and the techniques on how to achieve accurate proportions in your artworks.

Let’s begin…

Proportion as a Principle of Design

In our past lessons, we had an in-depth discussion about the elements of art.
The elements of art are the building blocks of artwork, on the other hand, the
principles of design are the techniques on how the artist uses the elements of art in
their art piece.
One of the important principles of design is proportion. It is the relation of
the size, amount, or the number of an individual part in comparison to the whole
image. Often proportion is mistaken for scaling, because of their relative definition.
The scale is the size of an object relative to another object in an artwork. The “whole”
as defined in proportion and scaling can refer to a single object like a face or the
entire artwork like a landscape.

PROPORTION SCALE

By Henry John Boddington (1811-1865) - photo of a painting,

Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=221531
81

https://www.albrecht-durer.org/Self-
Portrait.html

Proportion helps promote accuracy in an illustration, especially in

observational drawing. You’re probably tired of hearing the term “draw what you
see”, it may seem simple to just draw what you are looking at, but if you are not
certain on what to look for and how to look for it, then that is frustrating.

Proportion helps the audience make sense of the artwork. For example, if you
are going to draw a landscape of a tree and a person, the tree should be in a proper
scale in relation to a person. The person’s figure should also be in proportion to
what a regular person looks like in real life (no tentacle-like arms or short leg, you
get the point).

Of course, in art you are not bound by the rules, these are just guides.
Because there are drawing techniques like caricature, and cubism in which the artist
purposely alters proportion to evoke an emotion from their audience. But if you want
accuracy in your illustration, I suggest following the subject's proportions when
drawing.
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In Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man (ca.1490), you will identify da Vinci’s

representation of ideal human body proportions. For the facial proportions when
drawing the head there are a lot of artists with their methods, Andrew Loomis and
Frank Reilly are the two popular artists in this field. Their methods of drawing the
head are the basis of some modern artist when drawing.

The Vitruvian Man Loomis Method

http://marmotfishstudio.wikidot.com/comic:clase4

Reilly Abstraction

By Leonardo da Vinci -
http://ecourse.uoi.gr/pluginfile.php/1213
90/course/section/20203/Photo.JPG,
Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.
php?curid=74829621

https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/475974254344985576/

There are different techniques on how to improve your accuracy in drawing,

these techniques can’t promise you to improve immediately, but keep in mind that
drawing is a skill that anyone can master if you put work on it.

Techniques in Proportional Drawing

• Sighting/Measuring Technique. This is the most common technique to measure

the proportion of your subject. You can use any comfortable tool, but a pencil works
well. Use this to measure angles, gauge relative size, and determine how different
features line up on your subject and transfer these measurements on your drawing
surface.

How it works:

1. Begin by marking your position from your subject.

Make sure that you are seated or standing in a
comfortable position, since it may take some time to get
all measurements on your drawing surface. Keep
everything constant or suffer uneven proportions.

2. Hold your pencil and extend your arm completely without bending the elbow.
Bring your line of sight to your shoulder and
close one eye.

3. Use the end of the pencil or the tip and line it

up to the highest or widest point in your
subject, it depends on your preference. Use
your thumb to mark the bottom
measurement.

4. Transfer the marks on your drawing surface. Block in all the markings to get
the horizontal and vertical measurements of your subject.

5. Once you are done with measuring the first element of the subject, the rest is
easy, just follow the steps repeatedly until you are done with the
measurement. Always keep in mind the other object should be properly
proportional to the first object you measured. This way you will be assured
that your markings are accurate.

6. Connect your markings to show the visible image of your subject. In case
some portions are angled, don’t worry about its actual measurement, measure
it with your pencil and mark whatever you had observed and transfer it on
your drawing surface.
 This method is best when drawing from life or actual subjects. However, a
simplified version of this method can be used when drawing from photos, especially
when the image is the same as the surface. Simply take the measurements from the
reference and transfer. For scaling purposes, if the image is smaller than the surface,
some artist uses proportional dividers to transfer measurements. Drawing with
proportions in freehand is the best way to learn accuracy in drawing, if you had a
better grasp on how to execute this method then you can move with mechanically
aided methods like grids or a viewfinder.

The following activities will measure how much you have learned in this
lesson. Ready your drawing supplies and comfortable stations.

ACTIVITIES

Activity A. Using a red ink pen, measure and mark each relative object in the
images below.

https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/50440322
7020479232/
Activity B. Using the outputs, you made in activity A, transfer the markings on the
space below using a red ink pen. Add details and finish the artwork by adding tonal
value. Don’t worry about the red markings, these will be the basis when grading
your output.

Guide Question:
Did you find this activity helpful in improving your drawing accuracy? Why?
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Activity C. In your sketch pad, create a simple arrangement of three to four objects
in your house and illustrate them using the sighting method, try to capture the
proportion of each object accurately.

Rubric in Assessing Performance output

Criteria Percentage Score
Proper portion and scaling 40%
Creativity and compliance with 40%
the theme
Neatness 20%
Remarks:

WRAP-UP

Let’s summarize your understanding from this module by listing down the
concepts you have learned. Provide a short description for each concept you’ll be
writing about Drawing in Proportion.

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 VALUING

SHORT ESSAY:
What does proportion bring to the overall structure of an illustration? How?
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Is proportion an important principle of design that a beginning artist should

acquire to improve? Why?
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POSTTEST

Identification. Fill in the missing terms and concepts to complete the following
statement. Write your answer on the space provided below.

1. When beginning to draw in proportion you must keep everything _____________ or

suffer uneven proportions.

2. _____________ is the relation of the size, amount, or the number of an individual

part in comparison to the whole image.

3-4. _______________ and ______________ are the two popular artists who created the
basis for drawing head proportions.

5. When drawing using the sighting method, use the end of the pencil or the tip and
line it up to the highest or widest point in your subject, then use your thumb to mark
the _____________ measurement.
 KEY TO CORRECTION

PRE-TEST RECAP POSTTEST

1. FALSE 1. EXPENSIVE 1. CONSTANT
2. TRUE 2. SUBSTANCE 2. PROPORTION
3. TRUE 3. STYLE/S 3. ANDREW LOOMIS
4. FALSE 4. ARTIST 4. FRANK REILLY
5. TRUE 5. CHARCOAL 5. BOTTOM

ACTIVITY A.

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Beck, Michelle. “Observational Drawing Techniques.” MRS. BECK'S FINE

ART CLASSES. Accessed September 3, 2020.
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Esaak, Shelley. “How Does Proportion Affect Our Perception of Art?”

Accessed September 3, 2020. https://www.thoughtco.com/proportion-
definition-in-art-182453.

Fussell, Matt. “7 Drawing Techniques For Accuracy.” TheVirtualInstructor

Blog, June 27, 2019. https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/7-drawing-
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