Figure drawing vocab
Muscles
form the contours of the body in a figure drawing
Figure
Body
Stick figure
Is the skeleton of your figure drawing. You draw it first, then draw the body parts around it.
Figure drawing
is an artwork about the human body.
Lower torso
is the part of the body between the waist and the top of the legs.
Upper torso
is the part of the body that goes from the shoulders to the waist.
are the parts of the body that bend: neck, shoulders, waist, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles.
Subject
must be human in a figure drawing
Proportions
are the size of a part compared to the size of the size of the whole. They are indicated as fractions.