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Really liked this book, and agree that you must draw what you see, not what you know - e.g for an eye, areas of light and dark and their relative positions, not
by KineticLensman 6y ago
Really liked this book, and agree that you must draw what you see, not what you know - e.g for an eye, areas of light and dark and their relative positions, not an ellipse with a circle in it. That said, it is worth understanding some basic anatomical rules - e.g. that a persons eyes are halfway up their head, not near the top.
This is why drawing people is such a good test. If you draw a house or a tree, you can get proportions wrong and it can still look credible. But the same types of error stand out glaringly in a picture of a person.