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Six Steps in the Underdrawing

Six Steps in the Underdrawing

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James Gurney
Mar 08, 2025
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The Artist's Guide to Sketching isn't really a "how-to" book, but we do have a chapter with a with a step-by-step sequence explaining how to achieve accurate measurements and perspective.

The way you do it is to first rough in the big shapes, check measurements and slopes, draw perspective guidelines, then refine the detailed underdrawing.

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