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

77 Angles, Angles, Angles

I often speak of angles in drawing. Sometimes I get a blank look. I finally decided to look the word up in the dictionary to hopefully find a definition that would apply to drawing. I didn’t get much help, for it stated that an angle is the shape made by two straight lines meeting in a point, or by two plane surfaces meeting at a point. That meaning might apply to an arm bending at the elbow, but in drawing there are numerous angles that do not meet at a point; for instance, a person’s legs while sitting or running.

In mathematics the acuteness of an angle is measured in degrees with 45 degrees as a pretty well-known ...