how to draw stick figures in action

Why Learn How to Draw Stick Figures

Most people know how to draw stick figures.

That's something we normally learn from a very early on historic period, either at schoolhouse or even at home.

Drawing a stick figure - at its most bones level - involves drawing a head, and joining single lines together, representing a person's trunk and limbs.

But what'south the benefit of drawing them?

Well, not much if all you intend to do is doodling.

But cartoon stick figures with an artistic purpose in heed may help you develop a sense of proportion, residual and action in your drawings.

Below there are a few exercises on how to draw stick figures suggested by Victor Perard and Charles Lederer.

Victor Perard's Stick Figures

Victor Perard's stick figures use a combination of cirles (for the head, chest, pelvis, easily and feet), and lines (for the neck, shoulders, legs and arms).

Practice drawing these stick figures until you can draw them from memory.

This will assist in training the centre to observe proportions, and expressions of figures in action.

Afterwards that, describe stick figures in other poses.

Permit your imagination go wild!
stick figures in different poses

Proportion in Stick Figures

Proportion is the comparing of the relative size of i thing to another.

When you draw stick figures as the basis for existent life drawings, you lot utilise the head as a unit of measurement.

You lot use "heads" every bit a unit. A "head" is the altitude from the superlative of the skull to the tip of the chin.

Children vary considerably in proportions at different ages.
stick figures and proportion

Stick Figures and Balance

A figure out of residual looks like it's falling.
stick figures and balance

In the to a higher place drawing the stick figures take no "visible ways of support". But see what happens when a means of back up is added:
stick figures and balance

As a full general rule, if a vertical line is drawn from the anxiety upwardly, and one-half of the figure lies on each side of the line, the stick figure volition announced balanced.
how to draw stick figures