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A classic characteristic of beginner figure drawings is they are flattened out. Sometimes, it’s hard to realise what is going wrong.
It’s very natural for drawings to feel flat - they literally are flat! They are not sculptures. So every time we want to add that 3rd dimension, it’s an illusion.
There are 4 steps to creating and then selling that illusion.
0:00 Understand the problem
1:22 Simple forms
3:24 Sell the illusion
5:01 Use Overlaps!
6:40 Apply perspective
8:46 How it all fits together