formalism

Drawing tutorials are admirable things, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Alberto Giacometti

drawings of the human body

"Everybody has a theory of proportions of the human body but no artist ever see things as they really are."

Theodor Adorno

golden ratio

Human body proportions

The human body when measured from foot to navel and then from foot to top of head, showed average numbers very near to the Golden Ratio. 160cm/98cm and Golden Ratio differ by less than 1%. Picture proportions (600 x 371 pixels) approximates the golden rectangle by less than 0.05 %.

drawing tips

Art is good of it contains significant form (see formalism).

First rule : The pubis is at mid-height of the average adult figure.

Second rule (only for fun, not "for art") : the length of the foot is equal to the length of the forearm.

drawing tips
Femur
Quixotic
Representation
Vanitas
Science of odalisques

If you look at a portrait and the face is exactly the same to every detail is that art or is it just boring ?