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Proportion is getting the sizes of objects correct
in relation to other objects in a composition. If you are
drawing from life and want to make your drawing "look
like" what it is you're drawing, you'll need to get the
proportions right. Here, measuring is vital. You must measure
the size of one object in relation to another in your
real-life subject, then compare the sizes of the two objects in
your drawing. Measuring negative spaces against the real-life
subject and the drawing also need to be done in order to get
the proper proportion in a drawing. In the previous measuring
exercises with the fruit still lifes, we were maintaining
proportion because we were measuring both shapes and negative
spaces.
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When something gets
foreshortened proper proportion is nullified. This is because
what foreshortening attempts to do is depict a three
dimensional object in two dimensions. Foreshortening is when
an object appears to be receding into the paper or coming straight at you directly OUT of
the plane of the paper. When this happens, the size of the
object is distorted to make it appear that the object is
closer to you than the other objects in the drawing.
Foreshortening, then, is intentionally skewing proportion in
order to get a 3-D look in a drawing. Proportion will be covered
in more depth in the DRAWING
PEOPLE chapters of this site.
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