The document discusses figure drawing techniques, focusing on using overlapping ovals for constructing the human form. It references artists Raphael and Paul Cadmus, emphasizing a skeletal framework to support the musculature. Additionally, it mentions blind contour drawing and stick and ink drawing as methods to enhance figure representation.

1. APPROACHING FIGURE DRAWING
USING OVAL CONSTRUCTION

2. Look for overlapping
ovals that go back
into space

4. Raphael

5. Paul Cadmus

6. Construct the
figure as a series of
ovals which “hang”
on a skeletal
diagram (or “stick
figure”) and
comprise the
musculature.

7. Raphael

8. Prud’hon

9. Look for oval
shapes in each
segment of the
body

11. Blind contour drawing

12. Stick and ink drawing