Human bodies are the framework of visual arts.
Human body drawings are most meaningful when they disagree with theory.
Human body drawings are most meaningful when they disagree with theory.
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
"Everybody has a theory of proportions of the human body but no artist ever see things as they really are."
Theodor Adorno
First rule : The pubis is at mid-height of the average adult figure.
Art is good of it contains significant formalism.
Jean Cousin, Drawing tutorial (see also "How to draw children?")
Half the time I spend on drawing is wasted but nobody knows which half.
There are two cardinal rules to figure drawing : making life being art and making art being life;
Body proportion poses both a question and an answer for the artists (needing images of odalisques).
When you look at a portrait and the face is exactly the same to every detail is that art or is it just boring ?
Lucian Freud