Overview
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Explore the basics of figure drawing and how to bring the human form to life on paper. Learn how to capture gesture and motion, work with live models, and understand human anatomy.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Why draw the figure?
- Tracing the history of figure drawing
- Using materials effectively
- Setting up your studio
- Warm-up: Blind contour drawing
- Warm-up: The envelope
- Feeling gesture and connectivity: Process
- Mapping structure and relationship
- Arranging simple forms in space
- Capturing motion: Fluidity and rhythm
- Recognizing symmetry and asymmetry using the plumb line
- Placing weight and balance: Foot placement
- Finding skeletal landmarks: Front and side view
- Finding skeletal landmarks: Back view
- Comparing male and female proportions
- Drawing proportion: Front view
- Drawing proportion: view
- Drawing proportion: Side view
- Drawing proportion: Back view
- Drawing 3D volumes in space: Block, cylinder, egg/ellipse
- Attaching volumes to structure: Dynamic standing pose
- Transitioning volumes: The dramatic pose
- Establishing gesture and structure
- Defining form
- Making final marks and rendering shadows
- Next steps
