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Body Proportions

With this on-line activity you are going to learn about body and face proportions in Art. This is going to be very useful when you draw somebody's body or face. All you have to do is complete two short paragraphs with the correct data. The missing information can be found on this website. Read it carefully and then complete the texts. If you find it too difficult, you may try this game.

Here is the text you must complete.

Body and Face Proportions

BODY:
Adult body height: _ _ _ _ _ heads high.
_ _ _ _ _ from shoulder to shoulder: 3 heads.
Distance from the _ _ _ to toes: 4 heads.
Distance from top of head to the bottom of chest: _ _ _ heads.
Distance from _ _ _ _ _ to end of outstretched fingers: 1 head.
_ _ _ _ _ _ height: 1 head.
Distance from _ _ _ _ _ to end of outstretched fingers: 2 heads.

FACE:
_ _ _ _ are halfway between top of the _ _ _ _ and chin.
Upper _ _ _ is halfway between eyes and _ _ _ _.
Corners of mouth line up with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of eyes.
Top of ears line up above the _ _ _ _, on eyebrows.
Bottom of ears line up with bottom of _ _ _ _.