Art Your Imagination

Basic Pose and construction by using stickfigures

Let's take a look at stickfigures. They vary in detail, usually depending on how accurate you want to compose the body. We'll get to posing later. First we look at proportions of a standing figure.

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Stickfigure 1

This is the basic stickfigure. You can see the head, torso, arms and legs. You can't do much with this one, except practising the proportions of these body parts.

Stickfigure 2

With this version you can do something more. You get to decide the proportions of the arm- and leg-parts.

Stickfigure 3

Now this must be the most advanced stickfigure there is: I bet you never saw any kid draw it this way! Added are the width of shoulders and pelvis. In the next paragraph the importance of mastering this stickfigure will show.

Lesson:

  Try to draw these standing stickfigures  and see if you master their proportions. This is a fast and easy way to see how your knowledge of the basic human proportion is. You can judge the results yourself quite well without being distracted by 'cool' armour, hair, etc.