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I Love A Grid
Hey Linda, how are you doing? This has been a most interesting post. Which all the talk about sight sizing and the idealized "how many heads tall," we've missed two of my favorite methods of placing the figure. Building out from the skeleton, bone, muscle, skin and clothing. (Much as I understand the placement of the heads across the body to make the point, it does creep me out. I think there is also a picture in the book with "eyes" denoting placement of features. It's enough to give one nightmares....)
My preferred method is to grid out using brush measurements, or actually making a grid by using a sheet of acetate and holding it over the subject, transferring the information to produce a "cartoon" of the subject on your canvas. The placement is correct from the first stroke, and nothing moves on you. It's the ultimate control.
Peggy
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