Video: What is Foreshortening?

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Learn about foreshortening and how it relates to figure drawing and perspective with the expert tips in this free video art lesson.

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All right, welcome to the "How to draw a human body in perspective", and foreshortening, and all that stuff. Before I get into sketching, I want to explain what foreshortening is. When you're looking at somebody; your perspective, and maybe they've got their hand far out; closer. Like if I do this and then you see my hand behind. This hand's bigger, and this hand is smaller. That's called foreshortening. Now I'm going to explain how that works in perspective. Basically, in the past you've done boxes in perspective. You've got your box; your basic box in two point. Then it's going to a vanishing point. Like this box; the vanishing point is running this way, then running this way. It's the same thing with the human body, except that you're drawing the body in perspective, so we're taking the exact same thing; that box concept in scale, and we're using it with a body.

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What is Foreshortening?

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