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About This Series

This course is approachable enough for beginners and detailed enough for advanced artists. My philosophy is to teach timeless concepts in an approachable entertaining way. I believe that when you are having fun, you learn better. I take pride in producing high quality videos that you will enjoy watching and re-watching.

Videos are uncensored.

Total Runtime: 15 hours 30 minutes


What You’ll Learn

Gesture: One of the most important concepts to drawing the figure. Gesture is the rhythm, motion, action, flow, and posture of the pose.

The Bean: An effective tool for identifying and drawing the tilting, leaning, twisting, and foreshortening of the body.

Landmarks: Know the areas where the bone is at the surface. Landmarks are used to find forms and to measure proportion.

Mannequinization: Give your drawings volume and perspective by using mannequinization to help invent poses from your imagination.

Robo Bean: Create a representation of the body with boxes to help find its orientation and use it to visualize it as a 3D form.

Proportions & Measuring: Learn how to use Dr. Paul Richer’s scientific system of measuring an average person and apply it to your own work.

Shading: Use highlights, halftones, core shadows and more to make objects feel 3 dimensional. Identify specific elements of light and apply it to the form.

Practice & Patience: Develop a drawing schedule and stay motivated. Knowing how to actually draw this stuff helps with… well, drawing this stuff!

Features

Extended Lessons: Premium videos are in-depth and cover a lot of information about each topic. These lessons are detailed and will guide you, as you learn to draw the human figure.

Demos & Examples: Most of us are visual learners (we’re artists!), so hearing it explained is not enough. We have to see it many times. Course members get access to a selection of example drawings and real-time demonstrations that help artists develop their skills.

Assignments & Answers: The course includes a variety of exercises to help you learn about the information. After you’re done with the lesson, I will actually show you how to do the assignment so that you can check your work.

Critique Videos: Students that follow along with new videos and submit assignments have a chance to be in critique videos. This shows improves of artists of all experience levels. After critique videos are made, students can email me for private critiques.