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BILINGUAL SECTION 1 ESO Nov dec 2010

UNIT 3: PROPORTIONS IN THE HUMAN BODY

CONTENTS: Simmetry in the human body. Ideal and real proportions in human body. Life sketches. Motion lines. Expresive distortions. Transferring drawings: Tracing. GLOSSARY: proportion Figure drawing Observational drawing Limbs canon Motion Outline Life drawing Pose Structure sketch Anatomy Stance Paper dolls Overworked A dash of color

Proportion & canon. Sketch. Life drawing. Paper dolls.

Activity 3.A.: Alter explanation, copy sheets 1, 2 and 3. Activity 3.B.: Create a character (man, woman, teen, child) using a proportions map. Pay attention to the size of head, torso and limbs!

Afterwards, use this carcter to design a paper doll as seen in the example below.

Activity 3.C.: Life drawing: During this Unit, once a week a session is dedicated to life drawing, using classmates in different stances as a model. The student will draw life sketches with little details. Instead, stress must be put on proportions and motion lines. Activity 3.D (In groups, homework) Toys proportions. Using toys at home (Barbie, Ken, Action man, Mickey, etc) study its proportions (number of heads, etc). You can take photos to do this activity. Show your results in a PowerPoint with comments in English.

Recommended links: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=92041 http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/figure-drawing.htm http://slince.iespana.es/humano.html 2

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The term 'Figure drawing' usually refers to the instructional class (known as life drawing or life class) taught in most academies and schools of fine art, such as NCAD or Crawford School of Art and Design, during which students study and draw a live model sitting in front of them. This classic method of draughtsmanship is regarded as the best way for aspiring painters and sculptors to acquire the skill of drawing the human body and mastering its line, shape and depth. Copying the human figure from photographs or from memory is seen as inferior by most arts teachers. During the figure drawing class, a variety of media can be used to represent the model's body, including: pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, crayon, pastels, chalk or mixed media, although pencil is the classical tool. The sketch may be rendered in a brief abbreviated form, referred to as gesture drawing, or in detail. Various types of model-subjects may be employed, and the art students are typically grouped in a circle, so each has a different perspective of the model.