Now, the best way to foreshorten a leaf is to get one, place it in the desired position and draw it from life. The experience thus gained will enable the pupil subsequently to draw the leaf from memory.
All these objects are foreshortened. Practice foreshortening- of leaves or other familiar objects from the objects themselves. These examples are only suggestions.
Knowledge of how to draw any part of the human figure in a foreshortened position can be gained scarcely in any other way than from nature or through the experience of others, by copying.
The head of a person bowed forward or back is seen in a foreshortened position and should be considered as a circle drawn in perspective. The human arm even bears a resemblance to some geometrical figure, and when foreshortened must be considered as having some relative form geometrically.
Portions of the human hand and even the fingers when seen in foreshortened positions may be considered in the aspect of circles, ovals or cylinders drawn in perspective. The left hand as a model affords splendid exercise.
Take your left hand as a model. Draw the foreshortened views of it as suggested in Fig. 2. See how the rule shown in Fig. 3, regarding horizontal circles, is carried out in nature.
Exercise in Cylinders and Boxes. Make free-hand drawings of cylinders in various positions, especially one that will show the visible end of a cylinder appearing nearly as a straight line (as in A in the accompanying illustration) and the invisible end (B) appearing as an ellipse, the width depending upon the length of the cylinder the longer the cylinder, the wider the ellipse.
Draw a box horn the model. Place it directly- in front of the eye, but above or below it. Measure the back edge of the top and compare it with the front edge. Note that the back edge will be much shorter. Note that the two side lines will converge to meet the shorter lines. Place the box to one side, so that one side will be seen. Note the apparent shortness of the further (vertical) edge of the side. (See also Figs. 16 and 17, chapter on Perspective.)
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