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Can you use negative shapes when drawing a human form

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Answer: In drawing and painting, negative spaces are actual shapes that share edges with the positive shape -- the object or objects you are drawing or painting -- thereby creating the outline of your subject. Every positive shape is surrounded by negative space.

So practice drawing the negative spaces around an object instead of the object itself. If you're drawing a human figure, it's easier to draw the blank spaces between and around body parts than the actual parts. This is because we have fewer preconceived notions about what shapes blank spaces should be.

So yes, You can.

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