Chapter 1 | HIDE AND SEEK

In the drawings below you can see how you can play hide and seek in a drawing. The figure wanted to hide behind a tree, but this tree is of course too thin. In such a drawing we automatically assume that the figure continues behind the tree.

Exercise 1: Make a variation on this drawing with a thicker tree trunk so that you see a bit less of the figure. Of course you can make up  your own figure if you like.

Take a look at the next drawing. Nobody is visible at the top wall on the right, but below we see that someone was hiding after all. We only see a part of a head and hands. The rest of the figure is overlapped by the wall. We automatically assume that the rest of the figure is indeed hiding behind the wall.

Exercise 2: Make up a drawing or a comic strip in which something or someone comes out from behind a wall because you have discovered him/her/it during hide and seek.

If you draw two human figures together they don’t have to be neatly next to each other. You can place one figure slightly behind the other as in the following example. The back figure is partly overlapped by the front figure.

Exercise 3: Try such an overlap out with two or more of your own figures.