When working from the imagination, an artist can draw the human figure as it would appear from countless locations. In order to make sense of these many views, and to identify those that are most useful in drawing the figure, we must first understand how to define a view. In this post, I discuss the three characteristics of any view and how they are defined within the StArt Figure Drawing System.
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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.
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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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