Foreshortening

For today's post, I will be trying out a pose which called foreshortening. When it comes foreshortening there are many forms of poses and according to Mastering Manga 2, Mark Crilley says "Some poses consist of various foreshortening techniques coming together to create powerful three-dimensional effects" (Crilley 63) There are many forms of poses that require foreshortening procedure in order together to show  height, width, and depth effects. One of the poses that I will be drawing that requires foreshortening will be drawing a girl putting a peace-sign up.

Okay, what I did first was by drawing out eight horizontal lines, that were equally spaced. As Crilley states, "You'll want them to be at least an inch or more apart" (Crilley 60) Having them an inch or more apart will help you add on the details later on. After that, I drew out the head in the first box. 







                                                                                     

Now here's the most difficult part that I ultimately dread hands. According to Mark Crilley, he says "The thumb holds the last two fingers in place so that the first two fingers are free to extend" (Crilley 61). By following his instructions, I drew out the peace-sign hand that overlaps lines 2-3, I tried to make make the peace-sign was appear bigger then the head.










I had then added on the arm and a rough mark of the torso.

Later on, I add then added on the legs and made a rough mark on the legs. On the right of lines 4-5 is where I was starting to sketch out the hand. After that, I had began working on the hair, and adding details to the eyes. I had also put some wrinkles on the left hand as well.

 The next step was that I started to begin working to draw out the other hand, after that was that I began working on adding details to the pants. Putting wrinkles around the waist and knees.

For the final touches as usual, I used a PITT pen artist to ink out the lines and after the ink had dried, I erased all of rough drawings.

Upon learning that there are many poses of foreshortening, I will continue to try to draw the many of techniques of foreshortening. Though, my attempt for this particular foreshortening was a bit of a challenge for me because the hands, as much as I hate drawing hands I want to learn more varieties of foreshortening poses and as Crilley states, "If you really get into foreshortening, you'll find it can go way beyond a single hand popping off the page" (Crilley 63) I'm going to try to improve my hand drawing skills a little more in order to me to try drawing foreshortening poses. There are many poses I would like to master one day, though there are some poses are difficult I'm going to try to draw them all but one step at a time.

In your perspective, what would be the most difficult pose to draw?

Crilley, Mark. Mastering Manga 2: Level up with Mark Crilley. Cincinnati, OH: Impact, 2013. Print.