Figure Drawing Foundations | Proportions

The Ultimate Guide to Drawing Characters in Proportion

Created by: Clayton Barton
Learn Advanced Dynamic Drawing Techniques

What Will I Learn?

• Avoid the Proportional mistakes most artists make that doom a drawing from the very beginning​
• Spot and fix the proportional errors within your characters
• Apply proportions in perspective
• Draw characters in proportion at different ages
• Draw the common, comic book character types in proportion
• Draw the human head in proportion
• Draw the human figure in proportion from the front, side and any other angle you want
• Easily draw your characters in proportion without even having to think about

Requirements

• Students should have a basic understanding of the drawing terms used throughout this training package. The minimum resources required are a pencil, sheet of paper and eraser to complete workshop exercises.

Target audience

• Comic artists struggling to work out how to place their character’s anatomy so that it’s drawn to scale and pieced together correctly
• Comic Artists who are frustrated with trying to awkwardly fit their characters onto the page
• Comic Artists finding it difficult to keep their characters in Proportion when posing them in perspective
• Comic Artists who are unable to keep the proportions of their characters consistent across multiple drawings
• Comic Artists who are fed up with tweaking, erasing and eventually throwing out failed drawings that just never end up looking right