Drawing Figures in Foreshortening Perspective with Foreshortened Objects & Figures Lesson

Learn how to draw cartoon figures in the correct perspective by using foreshortening.  The following drawing tutorial will guide you through drawing cartoon and comic figures / people in the correct perspective to improve your drawing style.

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Drawing Figures in Foreshortening Perspective with Foreshortened Objects & Figures Lesson

Drawing the figure in more intense and complicated forms of action, often requires the use of foreshortening, one of the artist’s very difficult problems. An object in a position extended toward you, where you see all of it, yet not its entire length, is in a foreshortened view. A clearer idea of this is shown in the pictures herewith of the section of stove-pipe. An outline profile of its entire length (A-B) would still convey an idea of its exact shape. By placing it so that one end is pointing toward you, we have a foreshortened view, (C), yet, an outline of its form, (D) would, in this case, be meaningless. Diagrams E to H show the same problem applied in drawing an arm with a pointing hand.

The stove-pipe with its elbow joint (I to L) presents another problem in foreshortening that has its similarity in the pictures of a bent arm. (M to P). There will be many opportunities to use foreshortening throughout your work, and, by keeping these facts in mind, together with observation and faithful practice, it should not be very hard to do.

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