The Body: proportions

     How to draw a person? Get a copy of the basic human in circle-and-tube form. Study the model and beging to overlay clothing onto a body. Then colour and shade your figure to give him/her dimension and reality.

Basic figure

Examples from the book*:

*I have had this fotocopies for many years and I do not remember from which book I copy them. I always like to write my sources. It could be from Drawing for older children and teens : a creative method that works for adult beginners too, from Mona Brookes.