CHAPTER 3
MEASURING AND PROPORTION
The five questions you learned about in chapter 1 are an excellent way to capture the general proportions of your subject. But for a higher level of accuracy, you need more precise measuring techniques. In this chapter, I will teach you how to observe and analyze the proportions of your subject.
One of the most common and useful measuring techniques is to compare the dimension of one part of a subject to another part to determine their proportional relationship. This is referred to as comparative measuring or proportional measuring. Proportion refers to the size relationships between different parts of your subject. When a drawing accurately reflects the relative sizes of all parts of a subject it is in proportion ...
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