Drawing Figures

I posted before of the area museums offering free drawing classes of their art.  At the National Portrait Gallery the focus was on the exhibit "Portraits of the World: Switzerland".  For more information on this exhibit click here.

The teacher stated, "If you can draw basic shapes you can draw anything".  The human figure is basically spheres, cylinders, cubes, and cones. ~ JM

Femme en Extase (Woman in Ecstasy) / Ferdinand Hodler / 1911

Using shapes to draw.  My drawing is on the right.

Using shapes to draw. My drawing is on the left.

candy dogs

I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it was too cute to pass up! The body is mini twix, the snout a Hershey kiss, feet are chocolate chips and the tail and ears are made with tootsie rolls. :)