Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes Volume 1

119 A Meaningful Assembly

Drawing should reveal the structure of form and anatomy, but it must also reveal the structure of life and livingness. The structure of form and anatomy are some of the tools we use to build our drawings, but we must go beyond that to evoke the full range of the subject’s feelings and gestures. It is possible to make a perfectly factual representation of a skeleton using all the proper parts in their proper proportion and position. Here are the parts.

Here is the assembly.

The mere assembling of parts, of course, results ...