Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy (Made Amazingly Easy Series)

By adding a few new elements to your conventional figure, from
interpretive shadows to an abstract background, you can produce
artwork that is original, appealing, and creatively satisfying.
For our final figure, I’ve taken a dramatic pose and captured it at a
key moment in time. The viewer senses that the figure cannot hold
this pose, which creates a feeling of anticipation.
In order to evoke more from the subject, we’ll apply expressive
rather than literal shading. I’ve enlarged the shaded areas and
connected them so that they bleed into one another.
Once that’s done, I’ve blackened them, eliminating any shades of
gray. The effect obliterates much of the line work, which then
becomes implied rather than articulated. As a result, the figure attains
a mythic, sun-scorched appearance.
You may choose to draw this as shown here, or without the
interpretive effects, if you wish, which would result in a standard
figure drawing. But perhaps you’d enjoy a third option: Consider
coming up with your own interpretive shadows by imagining the light
source on the upper left side of the page, instead of coming from the
upper right side, where it is now.