Chapter 2 | THE LONG ROW

In this row of drawn fantasy figures, each figure overlaps the figure behind it. Also, the figures get smaller the further away they are. This creates depth in the drawing.

Exercise: Also try to make a row of figures. What would they wait for in your drawing?

 Here are two examples of pupils.

A row of figures. Everybody seems to have something to tell

A row of silent people on a graveyard

THE PARADE

The Romanian-American cartoonist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) drew an entire parade. From left to right they are farmers with a dung fork, construction workers with their toolbox, judges, astronauts, ladies with long legs and a crown on their head, tourists and … skeletons with a scythe. Creepy because do the skeletons with their scythe (symbol of death) bring everyone to their final destiny? By making it a neatly organized parade, it seems that no one can resist the outcome, whatever profession they practice. Only the front figure of each row is fully drawn. Of all the figures behind it, we only see a (sometimes broken) line at the front.

EXTRA: Draw a parade of several different figures. First draw the front figures next to each other and only then fill in the rows. Of course, the procession can also go the other way.