viewer. Be careful not to allow the feet to slide back into
a side view (the dotted line represents the angle a side
view would take).This is a pose many avoid because they have trouble drawing a knee
in a front angle. It’s understandable. It’s hard to fake it. So let’s learn
the right technique, called foreshortening. Foreshortening is an artist’s
term that means compressing, or flattening out, an object, which is
positioned as if it is coming toward you.
When you draw the leg, you’ll have to resist every artist’s normal
impulse to draw too much. Foreshortening means severely truncating
the leg, such as the thigh, which becomes nothing more than a mere
oval.
The five techniques used to foreshorten the figure are these:
- Drawing shapes that overlap other shapes
- Drawing shapes within larger shapes
- Drawing lines that overlap other lines
- Enlarging the near section of the foreshortened object
- Shortening the object