Description
Bodies of common figure types are shown in the same pose so once you’ve learned to draw a sleeve, variations follow naturally. Figures drawn straight-on look stiff and unnatural; ample guidelines make placing design elements on my templates easy.
To use: select the template with your body type. Slip the card under the last sheet in the pad and draw your design. When you’ve finished, flip the next sheet down, trace the parts you like and redraw the others, or play with other separates and hemlines, etc.
I will draw your own body in the same pose! …or work up designs to your specs to get you started.
[on boys complaining that the generic children look like girls – tell them that the first thing they should do is customize their templates. Usually the hair is enough. Sometimes they will go for anatomical correctness, too. The next step is to snatch the workups from their clutching hands and make photocopies for them, before ink bleed-through cruds them up (professional term). It’s pretty common for someone to get a pad and then have it go missing into the hands of their kids, but I’m not sure how to say “It’s a good idea to get one for each member of your family” without it sounding like shameless money-grubbing.]
