Fashion illustrations often feature stylized proportions. Long legs and exaggerated poses help create that runway feel. Shading and line work bring the drawing to life. Light pencil strokes can ...

Measure the height of the subject along the pencil and still at arm’s length compare it to the size of the other objects being drawn. Use the pencil, pen or ruler and line it up with the edges ...

Anything can be drawn from observation, including objects and still life arrangements ... positioning and size to draw attention to it. Use pencil very lightly when you start to sketch out ...

Just a few feet away, a life-size painting ... the first actual drawings we’re shown are small and very careful pencil self-portraits from the mid-Fifties, when Hockney was still a student ...