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After you become familiar with the grid proportions, you will be able
to use it to pose the figure as you build it. The skeleton and muscle
structure of the real human form are essential parts of figure drawing
because the idealized form is based on the real form. Beyond that,
the fashion figure stretches the truth and elongated the body. The
fashion life of that extra-long, extra-thin figure changes according to
accepted style. This style has little to do with the real human figure
outside of fashion.
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