help me with foreshortening

[killing.people]

please, if you would be so kind.

when i admit to weak points i have to over come them. :D
i really am not very good at foreshortening. i catch myself redrawing feet and noses over and over and over until i get a lucky stroke or something .. its hard to explain, especially with my vocabulary. :p

what do you think would be the best way to study foreshortening. just writing out the question has given me a few ideas.

thanks in advance. :chug:

[Lev_0]

Hey, read up on vilppu and what he has to say, starting from pg 3 and workin your way back to 1.

http://mag.awn.com/index.php3?ltype=Columns&column=vilppu&offset=20

His whole drawing book is there (value of like 60 bucks) so enjoy it while you can hehe. The idea behind drawing foreshartening is to draw everything in cubes/cylinders (basic shapes), then once you've got that down on paper or at least in your mind you can draw around the basic shapes as if you're drawing on them. Hard to understand, but practice drawing through objects and drawing everything in basic shapes first and it'll help some.

[gekitsu]

i struggle with foreshortening quite long, too until i found out how easy it is to just overlay ovals for every mass.

like one oval for the upper leg and one for the lower leg, slightly overlaying each other where the knee is.
imagine these ovals as objects on space rather than areas on paper.

so, you know the proportions of the upper leg oval. when you make it shorter, it either is pointing towards you or away from you.
i chose ovals for this one because they are easy to set up (unlike exact cubes or boxes and stuff like that), basically consisting of one line.

for further assistance, you can imagine aequatorial lines on the ovals, guiding you around the form.