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Figure Painting Tips - - Avoiding Figures that are Too Upright

A tip to add to your figure painting knowledge.

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If you find your figures are ending up too upright, try exaggerating the pose when you start to help counter a tendency to straighten up the figures as you paint them. And a few times while you're painting, check the pose by holding the brush (or a pencil) against the figure across the shoulders, then the hips, and then the spine.
Tip from: Marion Boddy-Evans.


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