Foreshortening objects

Foreshortening cross contour exercise | Love life drawing

This is a 45 minute exercise which focuses on foreshortening. My main objective with ths sketch was to show how foreshortening affects objects.Notice how the headstock of the guitar is similar in length to the guitar neck and only slightly small than the guitars body, showing that the object has been drawn from an extreme angle. Although this study successfully show a good use of foreshortening, the bridge of the guitar seems to lack depth and is somewhat flat in appearance.The ellipse of…

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