Human meaningful volumes are mathematical, without ideal body proportions
Human body drawings are most meaningful when they disagree with theory.
Truth in art is not a perfect picture.
Human body drawings are most meaningful when they disagree with theory.
Truth in art is not a perfect picture.
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."
First rule : The pubis is at mid-height of the average adult figure.
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
Body proportion poses both a question and an answer for the cool artists (needing images of odalisques).
There are two cardinal rules to figure drawing : making life being art and making art being fun.
