kathryn porter art blog

This image diagram represents the beginnings of a life-sized armature chart/guide, to help me map out the wire proportions for a life sized armature (based on a 7 1/2-inch head figure). The first step was to draw out in pencil seven 4″ squares representing the heads. Then I filled them in with alternating colors of green and blue, painted on a large sheet of plywood with acrylics.

Essentially, this wire armature has 3 main separated wires, with each wire color represented by the brown, blue and orange. The yellow dots represent the key landmarks of the body (seventh cervical, pit of the neck, acromion process, width of the acetablum, the halfway point of the body, and the knee joints).