Drawing and Painting Tutorials

In this project you explore the basic shapes of a shoulder, arm, and hand, and then add graduated shading with hatching and crosshatching to illustrate their three dimensional forms.
Skills incorporated into this lesson include: identifying accurate proportions, drawing with contour lines, and adding graduated values with hatching and crosshatching.

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I grew up playing with paper dolls. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but with Adobe Illustrator, creating digital paper dolls can be a fun and easy project due to the program’s customizable nature, and a jumping off point for making drag and drop Flash games. Follow along as I break down doll-like anatomy in creating a base body for a dress-up community challenge.

An ear is easy to draw when you become familiar with, and can sketch the shapes of its five major sections. In this project, you draw a realistic ear, by first sketching the individual parts that make up the overall shape, and then indicating the forms with crosshatching graduations.

A person’s head, arms, and legs are all connected to the major body structure, known as the torso (or trunk). This article introduces the major forms of the adult torso that are important when you want to draw a human figure well. You follow along with step-by-step illustrations, and outline the various forms of adult torsos in their proper locations. Finally, four worksheets test your memory of the shapes and locations of the forms.