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| Mannikin Frame - 1 Copied from Figure Drawing for All It's Worth Graphite Pencil on Paper |
In Figure Drawing For All It’s Worth, Andrew Loomis uses the idealised human proportions (see Proportions of the Figure) as the basis for a quickly drawn stick figure.
Over four pages of illustrations, he introduces one of the most interesting concepts in the book.
Loomis presents the mannikin frame as a tool for drawing figures in preliminary sketches, an important step in learning anatomy and an approach for drawing figures from life.
It also seems to provide a method for developing a hurriedly scribbled gesture drawing into a more complete drawing.
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| Mannikin Frame - 2 Copied from Figure Drawing for All It's Worth Graphite Pencil on Paper |
The drawings on this post are copied from the Loomis’ first page of mannikin drawings. For the first two sets of drawings I drew a vertical line and carefully divided it into eight with a ruler. For the last set, I divided the line by eye.
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| Mannikin Frame - 3 Copied from Figure Drawing for All It's Worth Graphite Pencil on Paper |
Loomis stresses the importance of practising with the mannikin frame and even over the few drawings on this post, my copies of his figures became more interesting and animated.
