How to draw the human figure: a technique for dynamic posture

When changing a figure's posture on the page often the first thing I work with is repositioning the position of the hips and chest-barrel in relation to each other. Do not underestimate the benefits of this technique. Greater feeling of 3d, natural posture, motion, are some of the effects of tweaking the chest-barrel out of alignment with the hips and vice-versa.

The foundation of most fine arts educations begins with the drawing of the human figure. These human figure drawing tutorials are brought to you by Cy Porter of solomation.com. Search WonderHowTo for more figure drawing tutorials by Cy.