How to Draw a Star Wars Stormtrooper
- 1). Find a photograph or still shot of a "Star Wars" stormtrooper to use as a model (see Resources).
- 2). Start by sketching the rough shape of a human stick figure. Don't worry about drawing in features because you wouldn't be able to see them under the armor anyway; just get the shape of the head and the pose of the body right.
- 3). Construct the stormtrooper around the stick figure you drew, using basic geometric shapes. Sketch a half-sphere or dome shape for the top of the helmet, a long cylinder that wraps around the neck for the jaw-line, a circle at the earpiece and a roughly goggle-shaped swoop near the eyepiece of the helmet. For the body, you'll use block shapes that roughly echo human anatomy; cylinders for arms and legs and abdomen, a three-dimensional triangle for the pelvis and a roughly barrel-shaped chest piece. Use tapered blocks and triangles for the hands and feet.
- 4). Step back and look at what you've drawn as a whole, instead of the individual geometric shapes. Compare it to your model. Add lines to bring the construction closer to your model's general shape and start roughing in extra details. Darken or erase the construction lines you originally drew to bring the entire unit together as one piece, and keep referring back to your photograph or still model for guidance.
- 5). Shade in the appropriate dark areas of your stormtrooper--this is where it's absolutely critical to have a visual to work from. Decide where the light source in your drawing is supposed to be--it helps if your model is lighted from the same direction--and shade away from the light. For example, if the trooper you're drawing is lighted from the lower right, you'd put less shading in the lower right and more shadowing in the upper and left portions of the armor's curves. This helps to give your drawing a three-dimensional effect.
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