Learning to draw the figure from life is the basis of all drawing. By breaking down the complexity of the human figure into basic structures, anatomy and proportions, a greater understanding of how to render the three dimensional form in two, can be later applied to any object, landscape or animal.

• How to do a block-in using the sight size method.

• How to use key points of a figure’s anatomy to determine a subject’s proportions, gesture and body type.

• How to simplify with straight lines.

• How to work from general to specific.

• How to understand values as they relate to the fall of light on a figure.

• How to simplify a subject into light and shadow forms

• How to describe a subject’s planes using the correct value

• How to create or “turn” form using a value scale, from shadow to light, to create a higher degree of realism