The internet is one of the greatest inventions of our time. How else would we be able to sit at the feet of one of the modern masters and learn from him like we can here? If I lived in his area I would be taking some of his live classes on a regular basis.
Scotty Davlin books don't show the "live" process. It shows snapshots in time. It doesn't show the movement or thought process. I've been blessed to have been trained by Vilppu directly at his workshop. The videos don't even do it justice.
The good thing about figure drawing, specifically gesture, is that it teaches you how to really be loose and look and thus how to draw anything. Thank you Mister Glenn Vilppu for this intuitive and very satisfying tool. You are truly a living master🙏
Aside from Vilppu's obvious talent, he is so intelligent and intuitive about how to teach. That only comes from someone who truly cares about his craft and also his students. Brilliant.
This video has singlehandedly gotten me out of my rut when trying to figure draw. I had so many ideas and previous things I've learned stuck in my head about how I should go about figure drawing that it made me so rigid it seemed like my art skills were devolving. After watching this it reminded me how I used to practice when I was just having fun and being loose....not worrying so much about the outcome.
Great work. Im using some of the advice provided to feel how the bones and muscles interact. My favorite is just how amazing it is to remember a gesture drawing is never a fight with time, but how you interpret an image.
If it was easy anyone could do this easily and he would not be considered a master lol@@cccaaaddd The concept is simple, but the execution he presents is not "easy" by any means.
@@cccaaaddd to be able to do it at one's level, its doable (easy even) but at the level of a master? No way, years of experience is needed for this kind of execution
Feel the pose .. experience what the artist is experiencing ... such beautiful ways to think. I think a lot of times art instructors forget that to produce art is to express oneself and not just to put transfer something physical onto paper.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is priceless. Your wisdom is appreciated Glenn Vilppu. And thanks to New Masters Accademy... Such a great channel. 🙏
My art teacher was a student of his back in the day. He passed Glenn's lessons onto us at Centennial High School in Compton California. I feel so lucky to have learned these lessons.
at least gesture is the 1º step, the 2º is even harder in my opinion, i mean Spherical Forms ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qy0VugzN-HY.html
Glenn mentioned a couple artists around 14:52, Heinrich Kley and who is the other one? The videos are mind-blowing btw, taking my game to a whole new level, so THANK YOU!
What a marked departure from the ateliers and the sight-size method! This is meditative, intuitive and instinctive but I think the 10,000 hours rule still applies.
How Do You handle Proportion and gesture at the same time?what should we focus more fluidity or proportions?for newbies like me it is a challenge to try to maintain proportion with time.
The Faber-Castell pencil he is using is not called "Royal Sanguine", but rather "RÖTEL, SANGUINE". Faber-Castell has the German name followed by the English name on all their polychromos pencils. So RÖTEL is the German name, then a comma, then the English name "SANGUINE". It is number 9201-188. Thanks to Faber-Castell for the research and clarification on this. And of course thank you to the amazing Mr. Vilppu. Such a pleasure to watch and learn!
Thanks for the correction. When we upload this lesson to the NMA site we'll correct that. We can't actually correct or modify a already uploaded RU-vid video unfortunately.
Sharlling Jheff that’s one way to learn. We recommend you subscribe to our video lesson library where we teach you everything you need to know to do work like this: www.NewMastersAcademy.org
Does anyone know or can tell if he is using a fine or extra fine nib? In another video, it seems that he mentions liking the Falcon, which he bought in Japan because, being Japanese, it has very fine nibs, and that’s true. But actually, from the stroke it looks fine, and from the sound it seems extra fine. What do you think?
@@NewMastersAcademyorgNMA So maybe youtube erased them cause I really can't see them in the list i had kept...the on called croquis cafe 360 is fully erased....
Yes, it's tough because we are very sensitive to the size and shape and the face is very complex. Check out Glenn's course on NMA Dynamic Gesture Sketching for help with this
Are we able to come to California and take an actual class by Glenn or maybe Mr. Huston, Gnass or Borenstein? I can relocate any time after fall semester.
You know there's nothing out there that we feel provides the level of education that artists need. Art education today is a very uneven landscape. That's exactly why we created New Masters Academy. That been said there are a lot of options in SoCal. In fact you're going to have better options here than anywhere else in the world. Depending on whether you're looking for an accredited school or just classes or even workshops you can look at: 3 Kicks, LAAFA, Laguna College of Art + Design, Animation Guild, Art Center, CalArts, and any of the many artist's studios offering weekend workshops etc. It may be helpful for you to build a list of artists you'd like to study with and then go from there (that was my approach). I would recommend against the ateliers just because you learn a house style in those situations that is very hard to break away from. - Joshua Jacobo
Start a series called “ quick pose family “ Quick Pose Family goes shopping. Quick pose family goes to the beach But render say the beach and supermarket normally ( tight)
Sancis it’s a compositional term. The idea is that how you design shapes, values, and lines can give the viewer passages or directions to look across the work. Our composition courses on our website go into this in depth.
What sources are you drawing from? Is there a book of model poses I can buy? Folks, DO NOT click on the Reference Library link provided. It is a dangerous, corrupted link.
Gacha_ Core it’s what brings our drawings to life. It’s definitely difficult but the good news is that if we learn how to control it all of our drawings will be much stronger. Have you done Glenn’s Renaissance Figure Drawing course on our site?
There are many approaches to gesture. What Glenn teaches is a traditional approach that has much in common with Renaissance artists. Though it has traditional roots, Glenn has taught this to animators and other top professionals for over 50 years.
Squidward you can’t pick up everything you need to master this approach from just this video. It’s definitely frustrating at first. We recommend you take the entire Renaissance Figure Drawing Course by Glenn Vilppu at our website NMA.art where every step of this process is broken down and you are given ample time and assignments to make progress.
Matteo Caruso it will be hard to do for years. It takes the right training and a lot of mileage. Glenn is the best in the world at this so obviously me makes it look easy.
i don't know if it is me or what, but i find your approach to gesture incredibly confusing, could you use clear definitions or can someone explain it to me :(
Bob it can be difficult at first. Have you taken Glenn’s course on our website? It’s over 50 hours where he breaks his entire process down, step-by-step. Https://nma.art
+Assassincalon I never picked up a pencil to draw until I was 18 years old, I used to have this stupid mentality that because I was not drawing since I was 5, I would never become a good artist: it wasn't until I started improving 4 years later that I became a great artist. I'm going to give you some advice that was never given to me: Practice, practice, practice: daily. Its not enough to simply watch tutorials, you need to practice, and you need to practice alot. My biggest mistake is I was only drawing once a week and it killed me in the long run. It wasn't until I was practicing daily that I saw any improvement. It's realy that simple: you just need to practice, daily. I recommend on the back of old school/paper work. Experiment. As I said earlier, its not enough to just watch tutorials: anyone with an internet connection can watch tutorials. What you need to do is watch the tutorials and pick what you like about them to form your own techniques. There is no universal miracle drawing style out there that applies to everyone, you need to experiment and form your own. I know about 15 different ways to draw the human body, my drawing style is a mish mashed, Frankenstein's monster of those 15 different styles. Persistance. You are going to fuck up: alot, you are going to make a million mistakes, your mind is going to make every attempt to tear you down, call you mediocre, and make you quit: especially at the beginning. You are going to get frustrated with yourself and your inability and for the first few months, maybe even years: you will feel like you are going nowhere: but you have to persist, even when it feels like you are going nowhere. Yes, you can become skilled. People like us lack natural talent though: so remember this, it's going to be hard. Since you lack natural talent you are going to have to build yourself up, brick by brick. It wont be easy, but then again: nothing worth doing is easy.
I hadn't pick up the pencil until I was 25 (but I liked drawing when I was younger) but I'm practicing and I'm better. But I don't agree without sth like natural talent because even when you have a talent you need to practice. All great masters were practicing as well
There is no such thing as talent. Dumbasses mention it every single time only to justify their laziness. Calling artist talented is insulting. Its a hard work through many years. In one year of everyday hard work you can develop very good skills and do gestures almost as good as Vilppu OR, you can lie on your couch and cry about talent. Your choice
Ace_H oh yeah. Trust me, I suck but I'm slowly but surely improving. Just practice as much as you can (or as much as you want) and draw what interests you.
idont understad at all, gesture drawing is not supposed to be about drawinf contours, yet, that is what he does... can somone please explain? Why does he draw contours?
Endo Souldreamer the gesture is the flow that links one area of the drawing to another. This is explained in depth and Glenn’s renaissance figure drawing course on the NMA.Art website
This is not an academic drawing, in my opinion. Usually artists start drawing a figure with the chest and pelvis shapes, then add legs muscles - elliptical shapes of hips muscles, calves muscles, ankles are drawn as a whole block, heels and fingers are also drawn as a block. That's how I learned an academic drawing. What's on the video is some sort of adaptation for those who knows nothing about drawing.
