BETTER PROPORTIONS #2: How To Improve Your Drawing Proportions W/ Enveloping Shapes & Triangulating

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Part 2 of the Better Proportions Series:

In this step by step drawing tutorial you’ll learn two more methods to improve your drawing’s proportions. You’ll find out about how to use enveloping shapes and triangulation.

Combine these with the lesson about alignments and negative spaces from the last video and you are set for major proportion success. Here is a link to the preceding video:    • BETTER PROPORTIONS PART 1: How to Improve ...  

Necessary tool: A thin, long, straight measuring tool (knitting needle, thin dowel, skewer,... or a pencil if nothing else is handy)

Important Tips:
Close one eye when checking the angles of the enveloping shapes, to flatten out your depth perception.
Begin with your outermost enveloping shape and work inward
Don’t begin with small areas

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My materials for this video:
Graphite Pencils HB and 2B
Drawing Paper
Drawing Board
Kneaded eraser
Knitting needle
Still life objects from Joann’s & Ikea