STYLE — MANNEQUIN BLOCKING SKETCH: thin uniform dark outlines on plain
paper, nothing else. Draw every person as a PLAIN ARTIST'S MANNEQUIN:
a featureless oval head with NO face, NO hair, NO clothing and no
costume detail — simple tapered limbs and torso, like a wooden posing
figure. Because the head has no face and no hair, the ONLY thing that
shows which way a figure is turned is the BODY ITSELF: the direction
the chest, hips and feet point, and the way the head-oval sits on the
shoulders. Aim each mannequin's chest and feet at the spot the staging
text says that person faces, and let the arms carry the action. A
mannequin turned to the wrong side is the single worst error in this
drawing. Environment is reduced to a few placement lines (ground line,
key landmark silhouettes) — just enough to read positions and depth.