leg and a foot
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Brenda Hoddinott
U-05 ADVANCED: FACES & FIGURES
Every artist who aspires to include people in his or herdrawings needs to become proficient in drawing the various
components of human anatomy. In this project you explore the
basic shapes of a leg and foot and then add graduated shading
with hatching and crosshatching to illustrate the threedimensional forms.
Skills incorporated into this lesson include: identifying
accurate proportions, drawing with contour lines, planning
shading strategies, adding graduated values with hatching andcrosshatching, and applying foreshortening as a component of
perspective.
This project is divided into two sections:
OUTLINING SHAPES: You visually identify the exteriorshapes and forms of legs and feet, as defined by bones, fat,
and muscles.
DEFINING THE FORMS OF THE LEG AND FOOTWITH SHADING: You identify where the highlights and
the light and dark values are located, based on a dominantlight source from the right. You use hatching and
crosshatching to realistically illustrate the various forms.
Suggested supplies include 2H, HB, 2B, 4B and 6B pencils,
vinyl and kneaded erasers, good quality drawing paper such assmooth hot-pressed watercolor paper.
7 PAGES - 12 I LLUSTRATI ONS
This project is recommended for artists, from age 12 to adult, with advanced drawingskills, as well as home schooling, academic and recreational fine art educators.
Published by Hoddinott Fine Art Publishers, Halifax, NS, Canada, Revised 2006
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OUTLI NI NG SHAPES
You need to be able to visually identify the exterior shapes
and forms of legs and feet, as defined by bones, fat, andmuscles before you can draw them realistically.
Legs come in many shapes and sizes, from the shortchubby legs of a tiny infant to the long,
well-defined, muscularlegs of an athletic
adult.
Grab your drawing materials and follow along with me to
draw a leg and foot. Thank you to my son, Ben, for allowing
me to borrow one of his legs.
1) Lightly sketch the outline of the individual shapes ofthe leg and foot.
Observe the basic shape of the entire subject and look
for the shapes of its various parts. Visually measure
proportions, how large or small some parts are ascompared to others. The various parts of the leg
include:
The upper leg is a large elongated oval-shape. A circle encloses the shape of the knee. A smaller long oval defines the shape of the lower
leg.
The ankle is a very small oval shape. A triangle marks the shape of the foot. Note that
this triangle is lower on the right.
2) Lighten your sketch lines with your kneaded eraser,until they are very faint.
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3) Lightly sketch the outlineof the shape of the leg.
Use the rough sketch as a
guideline.
Take note of the: lengths of the lines directions in which the
various lines curve
relationships betweenthe lines
proportions of thevarious parts to oneanother
At this point you can eitherleave the rough sketch lines
visible, or you can carefullyerase them.
When you draw a flower or a
tree, if the proportions are off, it
really doesnt matter. Not so witha drawing of a leg and foot. If
your proportions are wrong, yourdrawing just wont look right nomatter how wonderful your
shading is.
Drawing from life is the bestpossible way to develop an
understanding of anatomy. Its
important to become familiarwith how individual parts of
bodies connect to one another.
Once you know how to draw thebasic shapes and proportions,you can easily transfer this
information into drawing from
photos or instructional drawings.
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4) Lighten your lines again with your kneaded eraser andredraw your outline adding more detailed information.
5) Very lightly sketch the shapes inside the outline thatidentify some of the forms to be defined with shading.
6) Take your time and draw the details of the foot andankle.
Logic dictates that a human foot is
actually longer than it appears in
this drawing. However, keep inmind that this foot is being viewed
from an extreme frontalperspective.
You use a rule of perspective,
called foreshortening to indicate
the shape of a foot realisticallywhen viewed from this angle.
Foreshortening is the process in
which perspective creates the
illusion that a figure is shorterwhen viewed from an extreme
angle. The foreshortened qualities
of parts of bodies, such as legs andarms, become more noticeable
when viewed from an end.
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DEFI NI NG THE FORMS OF THE LEG
AND FOOT WI TH SHADI NG
In this drawing, the dominant light source is from the right, so the
shading on the left is darker. Before you begin, visually identify
where the highlights and the light and dark values are located.
7)
Use hatching lines and 2H and HB pencils to shade thelight and medium values of the leg and foot.
Take note of how
progressions of graduatedvalues from dark to light or
from light to dark
realistically illustrate the
various forms.
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8) Use crosshatching and 2B and 4B pencils to buildup the values to further accentuate the forms of
the foot.
9) Use 2B and4B pencils to
build up the
crosshatching
values to
emphasize
the forms of
the various
sections of the
leg.
Crosshatching
lines
beautifullyillustrate
anatomical
forms.
By emphasizing the
more complicatedcomponents, which
characterize
movement, such ashis knee, ankle and
foot, they becomeimportant points of
interest in this
drawing.
I use a lot of
contrast betweenlight and dark
values to help make
the forms of the legand foot stand out.
10) Use parallelhorizontal
hatching lines
to indicate the
cast shadow.
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BRENDA HODDI NOTT - BI OGRAPHY
As a self-educated teacher, visual artist, portraitist, forensic artist, and illustrator, Brenda
Hoddinott utilizes diverse art media including graphite, technical pen, colored pencil, chalkpastel, charcoal, cont crayon, and oil paints.
My philosophy on teaching art is to focus primarily on the
enjoyment aspects while gently introducing the technical
and academic. Hence, in creating a passion for the subject
matter, the quest for knowledge also becomes enjoyable.
>Brenda Hoddinott