Fast Sketching Stick Figures to Oval Figures - Drawing Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood May 15, 2004 1 It is important for you to learn how to do preliminary drawings using stick figures. Why? Because you need to be able to fast sketch your ideas without detail. You can set up all scenes with action in a matter minutes. If you're planning on going into animation or comic books, or just setting up for a painting, you'll need to plan out everything with the least amount of clutter. So in this lesson I'll show you how to implement people using the stick figure. Basically this stick figure consists of an oval for the head, a horizontal line for the shoulders, two lines for the arm with ovals for the hand, two lines for the leg and one for the foot, and a triangle for the torso.    2 In this sketch I have the figure pretending to hand something over.   3 The figure in this sketch is sitting on a chair.   4 Here are two stick figures conversing. See how easy it is to set up a scene?   5 This stick figure is raising it's hands above it's head.   6 Maybe this stick figure will be dancing.   7 Here is a stick figure sitting while reaching behind itself.   8 For a little more advanced stick figure, try adding ovals for the hands and using a triangle for the hip area. Make several poses using this type of stick figure.   9 Now here's an even more advanced version of the stick figure using ovals. Try sketching a variety of poses using this version. You'll need to get to the point where you can sketch very quickly and using all the methods shown in this lesson will help you gain that expertise.     Copyright 1998-2004, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved