Figure drawing in proportion

Instructions on how get your life figure in proportion.

This easy technique really helped me with getting the proportions right in the life drawing lesson this week these were the tips.

1. Hold a pencil in front of you with the top of the pencil at the top of the head. Draw your finger down the pencil from the top until it stops at the neck. this is your first length. Mark on the paper the top and neck points.

2. Hold the top of the pencil in line with the neck and draw your finger down to the waist. Use this measurement for the length of the chest to waste and mark onto paper.

3. Hold your pencil at the waist and draw you finger down from the waste to the knee and draw the waist to knee

measurement onto the paper. repeat this for the rest of the body .