How to Draw Human Body: The Art of Drawing the Human Body

We will show in this book that drawing the human body need not be so difficult. You will learn Step by Step how to draw the human body in easy steps.

We wit show in this book that drawing the human body need not be so difficult. Sorting from a simple base and applying a series of tricks and techniques, the reader will find himself able to adequately render a nude figure. The nude is to be considered an ideal model for a full study of forms and light. For this reason, when drawing a nude body, it is important to study the model's anatomy, and also the lighting, because lighting plays a role in making the sense of depth and relief more or less prominent.

Practicing this kind of drawing sharpens visual perception at the same time that it exercises our ability to depict forms. The human figure is a highly suggestive and evocative subject, which can be approached km many different perspectives and individual styles without diluting its essence. From an academic point of view, drawing the nude is the best form of discipline because it forces the artist to pay attention to proportion and teaches the skillful calculation of organically coordinated forms and sizes; from an interpretive point of view, it allows us to give free rein to form and contour.
Content:1- STUDY OF THE NUDE FIGURE
The Body and Its Proportions
Problems in Drawing the Human Figure
Basic Human Proportions
Proportions of the female Figure
The Child Model
Elderly and Obese Figure
Basic Anatomy and Synthesis
The Head and Face
The Torso. Front and Back Views
The Upper and Lower Limbs
The Hands: Structure and Outline
The Pelvis: The Shape nf the Hips
The Feet: Inner Structure and form
2- CONSTRUCTING THE FIGURE
A Well Proportioned Drawing
The unit system: Measuring the Body
The geometry of the Human Body
The Geometric Sketch: Structutitig the Whole from simple forms
Synthetic Contour and line control
The Virtues of doing Studies: A Good Form of Practice

Lines and Rhythm of the Figure
The inner Rhythm of the Figure
The Soft Line and its Modulation
Turning spots into Forms
3- ATTITUDES OF THE HUMAN FIGURE THE POSE
Analyzing Poses and Gestures
The Equilibrium of the Pose
Varying the Point of View
A Countermold: Drawing Negative Space
Ways of Seeing the Figure: Open and Closed Approaches
The Standing Pose or Contrapposto
Seated and Reeling Figures
Pose and Motion: The Expressive Line
Drawing the Hidden Parts of the Body
Foreshortening: Drawing the Nude in Perspective
4- LIGHT AND SHADOW IN THE HUMAN FIGURE
Tonal Techniques
the Effect of light on the Nude
Sketching the Tonal Drawing
The Process of Hatching: Creative Volume

The Clothed Human Figures
Studying the Inner Structure of the Body
Clothing and Folds: Creating Textural Effect
The Drape: Rhythms and Wrinkles
The Figure and its contexts
5- TEXTURES AND EFFECTSThe Artist's Resources
Rendering the Atmosphere around the Figure
Creating Volume and Accents
Correcting Without Erasing
Blending to Dissolve Contours
Erasing: Opening Up Spaces
Expressive Lines: Rhtym and Tension
Hair Texture
The Qualities of the Skin

6- STEP BY STEPThe Nude Figure in Charcoal: The Outline
Building a Figure from Geometric Forms
Drawing a Standing Figure: The Contrapposto
The Figure Foreshortened: Drawing the Female Nude
Building on Stains
Figure with chiaroscuro Effect
The Male Figure with the Waist Up
The Profile: The Importance of Contour
A Clothed Figure
Modeling the Figure
Line Drawing of the Figure
Modeling Flesh Tones
The figure of a Young woman and a girl on a Beach
Interior with Atmospheric Figure
Portrait of a Figure