I love this video. Seeing it done slowly first with in depth explanation and then a real quick sketch afterwards was the perfect way to lay out this video, and the shapes annotated over the top of the model were very helpful in getting me to understand how to break down the human body into those simple shapes. As a developing artist I often find it hard to see those basic shapes so this video has helped me a lot. Thanks!
I watch this over and over to remind myself of the process. I always want more. You are an accomplished draftsman and can communicate your method with concise ease. Kudos
I say with confidence that I’ve watched about 100 of these figure drawing vids. This ONE, without a doubt, has informed more for me than 98% of all of these. Thank you so much! I begin anew🏆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️
This was very well explained. I've been trying to get better at doing gesture drawings for ages, but couldn't find anyone who broke it down into easier to digest steps like this. Thanks very much.
Thanks for your his video - it was really very helpful indeed. I've worked on figure construction before and on a freer kind of gesture figure drawing but I haven't been able to put them together in real life examples. Now, finally I can see how it goes. It just clicked. Thank-you. You are a gifted teacher as well as artist.
This is a very well-paced explanation of a method that gives not only the how but explains WHY you would do things in this particular order. Just enough information phrased just the right way! I won't gesture so haphazardly anymore. Thank you for sharing this!
Great video! I like how he uses a combination of shapes and lines for creating the gesture. I'm currently having problems with proportions in my gesture drawings. Something that does not happen when I construct the figure out of shapes and volumes as opposed to just lines. Thanks a lot for this video, it's nice to see how different artists approach gesture drawing :)
This video is AMAZING! Very nicely shot and edited and very, very, very helpful in that you demonstrated the "whats" and "whys" of your process with angle lines, geometric shapes, and video of your raised pencil over the top of the model to show us what you were looking at and what you were seeing in your mind's eye. This video made sense of a figure/gesture drawing class I took recently that left me more confused and frustrated than instructed. Looking forward to checking out your other videos!
Making pre-measurements is not discussed hardly at all (except here!) I have been self-teaching for years and only in the last couple months have I noticed it and begun trying to incorporate.
It looks like just your standard graphite pencil. A soft one, maybe 6b or 8b. And the point is achieved by sharpening your pencil with a knife. I use an X-acto knife. We do this to expose more of the graphite than would be with a traditional pencil sharpener.
This reminds me of the life drawing classes I took at San Jose State in the early 1970's. Maynard Stewart was the only instructor who was BRAVE enough to teach traditional life drawing! At that time, it was politically incorrect to do so.
how to draw an accurate image. His videos are very hopeful that he will produce many good videos on how to model and measure directly on models. thank you. see you again
I think if I were to do this this would take me 15mins but would be more helpful then most other methods in helping me understand proportions and gesture.
for those of you who do not have a model on hand, ikea has these wierd doll thingies you can shape in all sizes. There are also a number of wesites which have practice models for gesture drawing
Those are good, but you have to be careful, because the poses that you can put them are often very unnatural, and because they tend to be held up by a metal rod, it is difficult to learn about where the weight of the figure is going through.
Samantha Thomas its just an cheap alternative, they did help me practice foreshortening and things in certain angles since the are always in the exact same position. I got mine from an art supply store, and it was a little more expensive then the ones from ikea, but the articulation is a lot better then the one from ikea. If you are going to talk about things that are inaccurate, just look at the build of the thingies, its far off from an actual human.
Theabillitytochangenames Isfrigginawesome There are many resources at artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ for photos of figures to practice.
Say if I were to draw a portait of anyone. Most people I see just start drawing instantly the eye/nose/etc. Why is that? And their drawings come out fine. Is this just a way to structure something and to make your proportions proper?
+Makoto Sekai (Nagashima) the most important are the lines of action. its not aways the spine. dont think too much in finishing lines, but stabilish the forms, proportion and movement.
Hello.. Great great video. do you know of a good anatomy, proportion figure drawing books i could buy? I just got one online and it is not very good.The one i got is Anatomy for Artists. Quite ordinary and very shy drawings or too robotic feel.
That's pretty much what this video is about. If you learn how to do it slowly like he shows you, then with practice you'll be able to do it quickly, like he then shows afterwards. Follow his instructions carefully, then practice practice practice.
