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Three segments. Duration: About 1 hour

This is a draft based on a single trial of this sequence of exercises. More illustrations from student work will be collected.

Description

This exercise explores an alternate way to look at drafting the figure, based on the angles that segments of a contour instead of the locations of specific features.

I have found that a some of the students who went to art school have been trained to look at angular relationships when laying out a figure sketch.

This exercise is designed to introduce less experienced students to the technique in a relatively brief exercise.

Part 1, 2x10 minutes

Get the model to pose in some posture that includes a generous set of angular relationships.

Pass out skewers to the students. Ask the students to hold the skewer up in front of a portion of the contour so the skewer is parallel to the surface at a given point. The students are to ignore the details of the model and to draw a segment of the skewer.

Repeat the exercise a second time.

Part 2, 10 minutes

For the second part, the students can use the skewers if they want to, but it's not required.

Ask the students to perform something similar to the first part, but to break up the figure into parts that are TWO sides of a triangle. That is,the contour of the figure should be a collection of angles: <.

Part3, 10 minutes

Ask the students to go through a specific sequence of drawing tasks.

First, draw a single large triangle that approximates the gesture of the pose.

Next, they are to refine the approximation by taking each of the three sides of the first triangle and creating three more triangles where one side is a side of the original triangle.

as the exercise proceeds, they should further refine the drawing with additional subdivisions of triangles they have already drawn.