How To Draw a Nude Woman

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Expand the description and view the text of the steps for this how-to video. Check out Howcast for other do-it-yourself videos from Dynamic and more videos in the Drawing Techniques category. You can contribute too! Create your own DIY guide at www.howcast.com or produce your own Howcast spots with the Howcast Filmmakers Program at www.howcast.com If you’ve got someone who’s agreed to pose in her birthday suit, you’re halfway there! To complete this How-To you will need: Art supplies An eye for detail Fixative, or protective varnish to spray on your masterpiece Step 1: Get supplies Pick up some art supplies. You’ll need drawing paper with a subtle roughness that will allow mediums like charcoal to stick and stay in place, charcoal, soft pencils, square crayons, and erasers. Step 2: Pose your model Pose your model. Take into consideration what parts of her body you’d like to focus on. Step 3: Work out proportions Work out proportions using the “thumb and pencil” technique. Standing 10 feet from your model, hold a pencil in your outstretched hand and, using your dominant eye, line it up with the top of her head. Now move your finger down the pencil until you come to her chin—that’s her head measurement. Tip: To determine your dominant eye, make a triangle with your hands and center it over a distant object. Look at the object with one eye closed at a time. The eye that allows you to see the object centered is your dominant eye. Step 4: Measure height Still using the pencil