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Figure drawing methods for artists, over 130 methods for sketching, drawing, and artistic discovery, Peter Boerboom and Tim Proetel

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Figure drawing methods for artists

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Peter Boerboom and Tim Proetel

over 130 methods for sketching, drawing, and artistic discovery

Simple methods teach how to draw figures. When we try to draw a person, we are quickly confronted with various challenges. The proportions need to be correct, the attitude must be clear and vivid, the face should show resemblance and also be expressive. Such a task takes courage. Yet a little practice and training quickly lead to the ability to draw figures in a wide variety of styles. A figure in a particular posture can be assembled with a few key characteristic strokes. At the center of this collection is not the perfect figure, but the joy of drawing, and how, with simple methods, drawing people is possible: by reducing and reducing to a few lines, using clear contours and simple surfaces, the human figure emerges, constructed and elaborated