Figure Drawing Garden (IndieGameJoe)

What it is, and who made it

A game for drawing practice: walk a garden of 3D-scanned sculptures and sketch them, with a dynamic lighting mode for shading practice and model packs.

Parts, layer by layer

• Features: garden of statues; real sculptures 3D-scanned; dynamic lighting mode; model packs menu (O).
• Clip: 36 s; mean speed 0.13 widths per second, coherence 0.52 (M); grey-white scenes, a hand sketching (O).

The framework behind it

A tool that turns light into the teacher: the same form under moving light shows how shading works. Light is the additive; the form is the medium.

The same idea in distant fields

• Plaster cast drawing in academies.
• Photographic lighting studies (one subject, many lights).
• Museums with cast courts.

Dual edge

Learning tools can become engagement loops; the canon asks for tools that return time. A study tool should end when the drawing is done.

Measured

Concepts

• air
• archive memory
• attention
• code
• contrast
• glass
• light
• light direction
• loop cycle
• paper
• plant
• practice learning
• scale crop
• stone sand
• time as material

All studies