Artist PROFILE
Charlie Pickard
LOCATION: England
Charlie is a classically trained fine artist and illustrator who works, exhibits and teaches out of his studio in London. https://bit.ly/3R3Dcz3
One of the most challenging topics in the life drawing room, and in drawing more generally, is that of foreshortening; where a body part is coming more or less directly towards the viewer and appears shortened.
And that intimidating feeling isn’t without good reason. So often a strongly foreshortened limb can present us with a view of the body we’re entirely unfamiliar with, and our usual drawing methods can fail us when we attempt to represent it.
But despite what looks apparently difficult here, there’s actually a lot more similarity between the strongly foreshortened view and conventional positions. With just a slight change in our thoughts and approach, we can realise that all positions contain foreshortening in some degree. In a fashion, we already know how to draw this seemingly challenging topic, and this realisation will lead us to possessing a much more confident control over the form in our drawing in all positions. So, let’s get exploring the intricacies of foreshortening.
1 TERMINOLOGY
The first important
