This format of drawing workouts is super helpful for someone like me who needs more "hand holding" when starting to learn a new subject! Alas, it's also rare to find videos that follow this format, so I hope you continue with this series when moving on to other parts of the mannequin.
Just learn the fundamentals of anatomy through the old, hard way. It's boring and requires discipline and focus, but you will thank me later. Don't waste your time on these ''simple'' anatomy tutorials that supposedly offer drawing hacks to draw better. Learn how to draw like the old masters did. It takes years, have the patience or find another hobby if you can't muster the discipline.
I'm not sure how you did it, but watching this video instantly turned my brain into "art mode" and I had an amazing night in terms of drawing and creativity.
watching other people being passionate about something often trigger something in your brain, "i can do it, let's do it" or even "i want to do that", watching a speed painting, a professional match of sport or esports, someone talking about their favorite topic all of those and more can trigger that, that's why surrounding ourself with the thing we love and want to do is really important :D
This is so encouraging. I struggle with motivation and feeling useless from the beginning when so much info out there is "you must learn everything about anatomy or don't bother even starting, you loser." But this one makes me feel like I could actually get going without knowing all that first. Thank you!
Man thank you for saying the study of muscles and bones does not need to be as in depth as others make it seem. I was (still am) hesitant to take on that huge task but this made it seem much simpler. Thank you again!
Cool, yeah it all comes down to doing it a couple of times and it'll become a habit. Have you simplified other ways of drawing? I highly recommend it :D
@@thedrDraw mostly just gesture drawing that I've learned from Michael Hampton here on youtube. This is going to help me getting into the construction part, before I can start doing anatomy. :)
thank you so much for this video. Every tutorial I see overcomplicates the process and acts as though I already know what I'm doing. This is the simplest one I've found and I can actually recreate it.
I appreciate the construction breakdown. I realized I was not being specific enough with my tutorial searches. Looking for tutorials on how to "pose" a figure leads to a lot of videos that just assume you already know how to draw. Having someone break down the purpose of the lines, the planes of the shapes, AND the added 5-minute workout where I draw alongside you? That's incredibly helpful. Thank you! I feel drawing tutorials, while they still exist, are a little difficult to find since the algorithm awards entertainment over instruction. So I really appreciate this approach
Thank you. I've been struggling with figure drawing for months but this is actually super helpful because I really wanted to be able to draw more 3d figures and this is so much more than I could have hoped for! I bought the workout pack :) Thanks!
dude thanks a lot! ive never really been taught anything about the belly's significance and this is really helping me draw more fluent torsos than i have just a few minutes before
This is the easiest, short, well to the point video I've ever seen. Most videos I've seen takes along time getting to the point. This really helps me out. Hope to see more tutorials!!!!
Great video again Alex! I really like the fact that you spent few minutes drawing, quite slowly, showing different angles, tilting etc, really interesting!
i am a VERY beginner artist and i think this is the first art exercise that i felt i could actually do the 5 minute workout may have taken me over half an hour but i actually *did* it thank you good sir for this very clear and helpful video :DDDDD
Ah thanks for sharing, I always wonder if I'm being realistic. But in the end it doesn't matter how long it takes you. You did it. That's what matters. Did you have fun?
So simplified and incredibly helpful. I appreciate this video and saved it to my “anatomy” folder. I love that dancing stick-figure animation near the beginning. 😄
omg... hes teaching us how to draw 1,000,000,000x better than all those other RU-vidrs that fastfoward and are so vague and say to "just practice". i just subscribed dr. Draw!
Thanks! I struggled when it car to the rotation aspect of the exercise, but at the end of the day, this really helped me understand the torso drawing a lot more
@@thedrDraw I have to remember this. I keep trying to get way ahead of myself and end up being disappointed by my lack of progress. I just need to focus on one thing at a time and slowly build up. Great tutorials, man. They're extremely helpful.
wow i got to say that i am impressed how simple shapes help you simplify the body structure in all different angles. i self taught myself how to draw when i used to be a kid, now a grown up in my 30's with a 14 year hiatus without drawing my skill level went down drastically! i remember drawing exactly what my eyes could see on a picture with no base foundation of the body structure, and drawing the character side by side while replicating the image. i for instance i grew up heavily on manga and the style was so fascinating and so here i am learning again and also teaching my brain to process information about figure drawing! thanks for uploading this video i went along as you drew the torsos and i learned a lot, my recovery journey is quite long but i'll get there eventually and i all need is practice, dedication and patience which are the keys!!
Not to exaggerate or anything, but this may just have been the most useful drawing-video I've seen so far, even more useful to me than much of what bigger channels like Proko have to offer. I actually did the exercises and ended up with something kinda vaguely resembles a human torso, if you stretch your imagination. It's actually just a bunch of not-that-well-drawn boxes with a gym-ball sandwiched in between each pair, but it's notably closer to human-like than anything I've managed to draw previously 🤣
Eu GOSTEI MUITO do seu modo de explicar (estava navegando pelo RU-vid e acabei encontrando seu vídeo) vou aplicar cada processo aos meus desenhos, muito obrigado mesmo. Agora eu entendi muito melhor como a anatomia é aplicada no desenho
As someone with a smooth brain I always had a hard time with anatomy and I avoided practicing it like the plague. But now things are going way better, thanks a lot 👍🏻
I've been leaning more into drawing lately and I use the same method. I do think this way is better because over time when I feel like it I can draw more muscle definition off of the foundation I made with a few simple lines and shapes. This torso figure also allows for a lot of fun ways to play with the shapes. Sometimes I like to make more of a trapezoid on the top for a more cartoonishly top-heavy character.
i usually draw human torsos like this, but squishing it down and making the torso and pelvis slightly shorter helps a lot for certain styles when drawing anthropomorphic things that don't quite look 100% human (robots, monsters, maybe people, etc) it can also give you a little more space to make the arms and legs look proportional
@@thedrDraw1 yr late, but it’s a website used by schools that are mostly used in math classes, and their short videos look sorta similar to the short drawing segment in yours.
scrolling thru the comments its insane how much this person cares about the feedback of a video he did a year ago, extremely helpful video nonetheless, thanks for the great tutorial
Honestly, I feel like I had the opposite experience and understanding anatomy really helped me with drawing a body because it gave me some intuitive reference points ( pectorals, hips bones, ribcage, abdominal muscles, biceps, trapezus, deltoids, and collar bones ) to draw lines between while sketching a body. I mean, I don't draw well yet, but before understanding that my drawings looked even worse.
Thank you so much! Just wanted to let you know that I struggled with torsos for the longest time but after doing the 5 minute exercise in the video I can finally understand and see the planes of the torso when before it just felt like a ambiguous blob
Oof! I didn't realize how bad I was at drawing boxes until I tried to follow along here X'3 Thank you for this! I now know a thing that I need to practice more of to improve my skills.
Good video, I was getting too caught up in trying to learn anatomy, but this made me realize I should be able to draw something that looks decently close to a real person using just the basic forms as bases, muscles and landmarks should be just an extra layer of detail
One tip I remember when learning muscles was that For the arms, focus on the 3 largest muscles on the upper arm first (deltoids, biceps, triceps). And the 3 largest on the forearm (Flexors, Extensors, Brachioradialis) On the torso, bipart it below the nipple line, draw the 4 largest on the chest (pecs and traps), 4 largest on the back, and draw the 6 (technically 8) abs on the stomach Once you get comfortable with knowing the shapes, where they are, how big to make them, and how they rise and relax, you can get more nuanced and practice the smaller muscles. It helps you compartmentalize the muscles and make it less confusing when starting out.
i feel like kim jung gi is a example of a professional who uses this type of construction, at least the one that i can remember off the top of my head.
00:02 🎨 Focus on mastering torso drawing for figure drawing improvement. 00:32 🚫 Avoid excessive focus on detailed anatomy, prioritize bone structure. 01:00 📜 You don't need to know every muscle and bone name to draw a torso convincingly. 02:00 📦 Simplify torso into two boxes and a connecting tube for ease of drawing. 07:38 🔄 Understand the pelvic and ribcage alignment for accurate torso representation. 09:17 🏋️♂️ Treat art improvement like a workout routine-consistency is key.
Mitch Leeuwe has excellent resources on this topic but I still think Ron leman's simplification using 'bendy hourglass shaped pillows' for torso is the simplest to use.
@@charkihakim2367 Oh yeah, I use to draw a lot of his poses. But I always struggled with them. Honestly I think his poses are the hardest to master. Good luck!
Thank you so much for this tutorial, it really helped me a lot while learning how to draw once more, but if you have the time could you please go more in-depth in how to add the muscles on characters as I struggle with that a ton
Thank you so much for this toturial...it was really helpfull i been struggling to draw torso. This toturial really help to improve..and sorry about my bad english ..i have to use google translator
Thank you for this. I feel like I use to draw better when I was younger but every one kept pushing me to learn fundamentals and anatomy. Since then I notice my drawings look less symmetrical and proportions are off. I understand it helps a lot of people but it also damaged my creativity it seems like.
You have no idea how long I've been struggling with the ribcage and pelvis being either too close together, too far apart, or being the wrong sizes. As soon as you broke it down to the ribcage being about half the height of the torso I didn't have a choice but to facepalm and just laugh at myself. Fantastic video.
Perhaps this is just something wrong with my setup, but I don't seem to see recommended videos at the end, just empty boxes? Lovely video nonetheless! Very informative and I like that you break down things so much.
Now i am really good With lineart and rendering but when i try to sketch it just... Confuses me, i have to use pintrest to really fix my art, but this video helped me alot!❤ thank you,
even though it's extremely difficult but i wanna learn to draw with accurate anatomy labels since i'm gonna be having an anaphy subject later on so might as well as hit two birds with one stone
It's personal preference if you use the Cube&Sphere-Method, LooseScribble-Method or the Bean-Method. I personally can work best with the Bean-Method where you abstract the torso and hips to a simple twistable bean-sack where you just put in the middle-line once you drawn the bean-sack.
One of the best things I've done to help visualize objects in 3D space is to get a 3D program (i.e. Blender or w/e) and model the objects. Then you can rotate around them in 3D space and draw what you see. You can also change the focal length of the camera, helping you see what the object looks like in an exaggerated or flat perspective. Some time we just need to see how it should look before we understand it. Cheers
