How to Practice and Check Your Measuring
How to Practice and Check Your Measuring
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How to Practice and Check Your Measuring
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Sandra Süsser
Somehow these measured studies get way more off than my usual ones. question: how do you go about finding the side points (farthest points left and right) better after establishing the height line with the center? This is where I still have the most trouble.
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Learn how to practice and check your measuring when you're drawing.
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Measuring the Figure

Choose one of the methods I describe in the lesson above. Either digital or traditional. Practice laying in a figure drawing pose and use the measuring techniques you learned. You can use the photo provided in the downloads, or any other pose you like in my pose sets.

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The mistakes were made before you laid in your values! Note how in the video, Stan has a simple/preliminary drawing, utilizing the envelope method to determine the proportions of the parts of the pose in relation to each other. He hasn't taken it to finish yet because he wants to make sure he got it right before spending time on the tertiary details, like defining specific muscle groups and adding values. At this stage, it's relatively painless to move things around because you haven't spent a lot of time making it look pretty. It's a good practice to get into to check measurements at this stage.
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