DRAWING THE TORSO: Mini lesson on how to use the bean
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2020
- In this mini lesson I’ll show you how you can use the “bean” to capture the action of the torso. You’ll learn the four movements we can depectit with it and which elements you’ll need to pay attention to to make your drawing a success.
See me demo:
Lean
Tilt
Twist
Foreshortening
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Materials I used in this video:
Wollf’s Carbon Pencils 4B
Newsprint Paper
Drawing Board
this is so helpful! I hope you have an extended version for this :)
Thank you,the demonstrate was clear and informative
You're so welcome! Glad it was helpful! Let me know if there are any other questions you have for me to address in another video sometime!
Thanks for this. I think I'll get back into bean drawing again after I finish with my portrait studies.
Sounds like a plan! Happy drawing to you!
Thank you for this! It was very helpful
Awesome. So glad it was helpful!
thank you! It was very informative
You're so welcome! Let me know if there are any other drawing topics you'd like help with!
Awesome and very helpful! 🤗
So happy it was useful for you! Let me know if you have any drawing questions for me, I'm always happy to help.
I love your channel, thank you so much for your videos!!!
So happy to hear that they’re helpful to you! Happy drawing!
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Cool another method of drawing people! 👍 Thank you so much for teaching me to draw.
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Glad it's helpful for you
Obrigado !!!!
You're so welcome :)
Hello 😇 I am looking for a easy tutorial to improve myself and I do daily 5 min sketch and this is very helpful for me .
🥰 thanks you 😇
5 min might be too less, it'll take you like 1-2 years to get satisfied
@@griffitsu7497 oh thank you for telling can you tell like how much I should practice everyday to improve faster ☺️
@@ARTISTAKSHIT it's not the "Time" actually, it's the "Urge" and "Mood", I won't tell you to force yourself but you just have to draw whenever you feel like it, well, drawing forcefully is sometimes needed to since it triggers you to realize the worth and the results of your practice, keep your used papers don't throw them away and whenever you feel like giving up on drawing look back on your arts and compare it to your current ones, make official arts sometimes too it's refreshing lol goodluck anyways
@@griffitsu7497 thanks you very much ☺️ I'll focus on that
Awesome! That's great to hear!
Great mini class. It was very informative. Can you recommend any books or classes for a beginner in drawing?
Thanks. I'm glad it was helpful. For figure drawing I recommend Michael Hampton's book design and invention. It's the best figure drawing book out there. For drawing in general I like Brian Curtis's book on observational drawing (can't think of the name right now). What are your drawing goals? What would you love to be able to do?
@@CarolinPeters I don't have specific goals right now, I'm just browsing to various types or artists and see what I think about their styles. I've just seen about Kim Jung Gi works and they really interested me.
@@VideoAulaslo yes, he's definitely a present day master draftsman... Meaning he can draw from imagination because he can visualize form in space in his mind like no other. Maybe that's something easy for you, too, being an engineering student. Another artist similar to him is Karl Kopinski.
Enjoy the research.
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thanks for this video but i dont know where draw the spine , everytime im struggle with ... thanks
You're so welcome! Remember that when you draw the spine you want to use it as a center-line, meaning, as a line that helps the viewer understand how much of one side of the body we see. For example, when we see the back straight on, you'll want to draw the spine right in the middle of the body. If we're seeing the model from a back + 3/4 angle, where you see parts of the side of the body AND the back, you'll want to draw the spine closer to one side of the body's edge than the other. Let me know if that makes sense. I'll plan on making a video on the is issue in the future so hopefully that'll be more clear.
@@CarolinPeters thanks you :) not easy to do ^^
Thank you for the sharing of the beans, but we can hardly see what's happening on the paper for the light is too clear !! The placement of the torso and the pelvis is a real challenge for me, I always wonder how to takle the structure : with 3D boxes, beans, circles...... And also, WHERE to start? I'm a beginner so the easy way to takle a drawing, the difference between a line of action and the leaning edge, what sometimes is it preferable not to start with the line of action if there is one, etc........ what would you recommend. Coud you explain all that on a tuto? Thanks for having taking (perhaps) into account my wonderings. (excuse-me for my bad english, I'm french).
Hi Olivia, thanks for your thoughtful question!
When I started out I had exactly the same struggle. What I've come to realize is that dealing with the torso as boxes, cylinders, spheres and beans are all just options.
What we have to understand is WHY we would use any of them. The answer is that as artists interested in a realistic drawing we have to create the illusion of volume on a flat page. To do so we need "helpers". These helpers are cross-contour lines and plane changes, when we draw with lines only. In order to place these "helper lines" well, we practice to deconstruct the figure into just boxes, or just cylinders or a combination of the two.
So, when you see artists use these simple forms they are rarely intended to be the end result. They are either a practice exercise to strengthen their structural understanding of the figure, OR they are part of the middle phase of their drawing, and will eventually get erased or drawn over by tone.
To come back to your question of "where do we start?" it depends on what the purpose of today's drawing session is? Are you drawing to practice your understanding of perspective, are you drawing to practice your understanding of light and shadow, are you drawing to memorize skeletal landmarks, or are you drawing NOT to practice but to execute a "finished" piece of art.
I invite you to watch some of my other videos as they may answer some of these question. This Thursday I'm doing a LIVE sketch session of the figure and I'll focus on "How to begin?". It would be great to have you draw with us! (Heads up, this live session's recording will only stay up for 48hours)
Thank you so much for having giving me some of you're time, Carolin!!!! A real challenge and hard work is to see a 3D boxe in space in a different position. I just can't do it, too hard for me, I think some neurones are missing in my brain!! I'll do my best to attend the session this thursday. You're advices are very precious for me. Thank you for your kindness. See and hear you soon. Olivia
@@oliviateston4240 you're so welcome! Oh, if boxes a challenge I have just the thing for you. Check out the most recent sketch session where we drew presents!!! It's a fun workout on how to get those boxes started and finished. I lay out a step by step frame work and give you questions you need to answer as you draw. Be sure to bookmark it. I know it will help!
Oh, thank you, Carolin. I'll watch with great attention this sketch session!!! You are a gift yourself ! 😇😇😇😇🎁🎁🎁🎁😊
Does this work for chibi body types with smaller body proportions?
Do you mean chubby? If so, then yes. This is a universal principle. Regardless of the body type, tall/short/heavy/slender we all have to solid bone structures (ribcage and pelvis) connected with a soft middle (where our organs are). That soft middle gets affected by the movement of the two skeletal parts. Hope this helps :)
@@CarolinPeters yeah! Chubby. The legs and body stuff and chubby and I've been looking for smth like this.
Hi caroline I’ve spent months trying to understand the twist of the torso and till date it confuses me. Can you help me out please 😢😢
Hi there, I know how frustrating it can be to try and understand something and it just won't budge. I'll need a bit of context. What are your drawing goals and aspirations and what kind of training have you pursued so far to get closer to your goals. Once I understand this I can help you out better :)
@@CarolinPeters omg, you’re an amazing person, I never thought you’d reply so quickly, I’m grateful for that 🙏. So I started taking drawing lesson from RUclips earlier this year and I hope to someday be a master of creating fantasy figures and amazing arts just like you. However, with the twisting of the torso in different directions I’ve had so many struggles, I’ve used the robo bean, the boxes and I still don’t get it
@@alextimilehin9255 ok, I see. Then my next question is, when you're watching this video, at what part do you get stuck? Do you get what the bean can translate ( lean, tilt, twist, foreshortening)? Next, when you see a twisting person do you theoretically understand how the bean is supposed to capture that, or is that where the disconnect lies?
@@CarolinPeters yes, I’m aware of the variations, but the twist specifically isn’t something I quite understand. Cheers Carolin I’m so grateful once again
@@alextimilehin9255 Ok, let me see what I can do within a short reply box. Let's begin by learning to recognize a twist in the model. It's a twist anytime the shoulders are facing a different direction from the hips. Makes sense, right. So the task is to use either two boxes, or if boxes are too tricky, use an egg for the ribcage and a bowl for the pelvis, layered with center-lines and wrapping lines to explain the orientation of each. Once you have those two things plotted out work on connecting them with the edges of the midriff. Ask yourself how does the pelvis box connect via the skin with the ribcage? Are there any overlaps happening? Especially use the center-line to explain and where it's vanishing from sight. I hope this makes sense. Best of luck!
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From some very popular video i know someone roasted beans in favor of polygon
To each their own. It all depends on what your drawing's goal is and which tool will get you there most effectively.
draw the bean ....use the bean....then we get confused when we were told to ....now slot in squares....huh what.? maybe u can help.....
Hi there Zang, I'd love to help. Let me understand your question a bit better. Has someone suggested to first get the bean established and then continue working on the bean by overlaying boxes? If you can clarify your question a bit more I'll definitely have an answer for you :)
@@CarolinPeters yes. exactly ....overlaying boxes...that's wat I mean...you got it.......their advise is simplify the torso pelvis with the bean.......replacing the torso-pelvis -bean with the box square.....if that's the case wouldn't it better to use the square straight away....instead of going through the process sequence of using the bean then next replacing it with the squarebox.......then overlap the square with anatomy.....
@@zangsoong8943Do you now know the answer? Because I'm also confused because of this
This demo does nothing to show how one continuous line can put the entire figure onto paper. Drawing beans does nothing but produce a drawing of beans.
Cope