The heart of the StArt Figure Drawing System is a catalog of figure drawings demonstrating certain strategic poses seen from different views. In many ways, this is similar to a medieval model book, from which artists of the Middle Ages copied drawings of important subjects. But the StArt System involves much more than merely copying stock images, as this article describes.
Read more...Between the Front, Side, and Rear Views: What’s Missing from Figure Drawing Instruction
Drawing the human figure from your imagination is difficult—the human body can take such a wide variety of poses, and any pose can be drawn from a multitude of views. But we can create a framework for identifying those pose/view combinations that are most strategically useful to artists, and by doing so, establish a system for learning to draw a broad repertoire of figures.
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