What I did here was to erase the
dotted lines and add simple shadows to the shapes so they look
solid. This way you can see that the shapes warp and distort as
they are foreshortened. You can really see it with both shins.
If we assume that the left shin is pretty close to how long it
really is, we can see that the right shin is very scrunched up
due to foreshortening. You're almost looking at the very top of
the right shin shape and it's foreshortened so much that it only
looks about one third the length of the left shin shape. Look
also at the right arm. We know that the upper arm is about the
same length as the lower arm, but we see foreshortening here so
the bicep looks about half as long as the forearm. Drawing
these simple three dimensional shapes really helps to show how
the body is being foreshortened. The simpler you make the three
dimensional shape, the easier it is to understand how that shape
is being foreshortened. If you need to add simple shading to
help see the shapes - go right ahead. |