3-D gesture drawing: foil figures

Fourth graders are enjoying warming up their drawing skills using gesture drawing to quickly capture the movement and position of a figure.  Now we are taking it a step further by forming these gestures three-dimensionally, using aluminum foil.  After bunching and bending the foil into the desired position, we traced a shadow and glued the figures in front.  It was a fun way to broaden our figure drawing skills.



sketching 30 second poses from a mannequin



forming the figure