Article · Reconfigure Life Drawing
Hands/feet
By Topaz Pauls
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2019
About this lesson
Argues for treating hands and feet as simplified abstract shapes integrated into the whole figure from the start rather than added afterward, using Henry Moore, Euan Uglow and Egon Schiele as examples of gesture over anatomical perfection.
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