Video: How to Draw to Scale

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One of the first thing you'll need to know as an artists, is how to draw to scale. Learn how with the expert tips in this free video art lesson on figure drawing to scale.

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So where we left off was I was just basically filling in the circles. Let's finish this up. Basically we've got our muscles up top, the shoulder muscles, and muscles that go into the arm. Just start drawing, start practicing and you'll get it fastly. Basically just kind of throwing skin on top of these circles just to get an idea of what I'm dealing with here. Remember, your using your circles and filling them out. Here's where your elbow would be so draw the tricep in coming down to the elbow. I started these down here. It's like the same thing with these guys up here. This part of the muscle is like a circle and these are just lines that kind of walk into the hand. Usually with the knees, you draw half-circles and then lines that go down. Because you've got that weird thing in the front that runs down the front of your leg that goes all the way down. With the muscles in here, it's same thing with how all these flow into each other. Same with this, you've got muscles here running into each other. The best thing you could do is just grab an anatomy book or something. A book, I do recommend, is How To Draw Marvel Comic Heroes. It's a good book. It's really old, but it's got the core values in there. They show you everything I'm pretty much talking about. You can always reference it. It's a great book. That's kind of what taught me how to draw first. Drawing hands, thumbs, or whatever. Basically, I'm just going to darken it in so you get a better idea of how this all comes together. It all just gets kind of connected. That's the good thing about sketching light, cause then you could fix errors.

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How to Draw to Scale

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