How to Represent Flexibility in a Drawing
The most important thing to remember when you communicate through a drawn image is that you are inviting the viewer into your world. You make the rules of the world and may chose to communicate through them. When communicating the idea of flexibility, you may draw the viewer in with a rigid drawing of commonly found flexible items, such as flowers or hair, while having an item in view that is very flexible. This juxtaposition through the rules of your world will represent flexibility.
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Use juxtaposition in a realistic drawing to communicate flexibility. The background should use rigid images of commonl flexible items such as licorice or long hair. An item in focus should be drawn in a flexible state, and the juxtaposition will make the idea stand out.
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Use the strokes of your drawing tool to represent flexibility. Rigid items should use deliberate, broad and aggressive strokes, while the flexible items should use loose, free-flowing strokes.
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Use common knowledge to represent flexibility. If you draw a person doing yoga and stretching just past the capability of a normal person, you will get the viewer to feel the flexibility. Taking commonly known objects and stretching just beyond the point of normal will keep the drawing believable and communicate flexibility.
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Invite the viewer into a cartoon world. You can take commonly rigid items, such as a spoon, and bend them in a cartoon while putting a face on the spoon that is grimacing and sweating. In a cartoon world you make all the rules and can use movement lines to represent the action of flexing.
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