Anyone who reads this comment: this video is a text book example of a learning approach called 'guided mastery' (Albert Bandura/Self-Efficacy theory). Guided mastery involves an instructor describing what they are doing but keeping it within smaller parameters so it doesn't overload your brain but still sinks in. Kenzo does this all the time, and very, very well. It was only today that I realised this because this video is very applicable to where I am currently at with my figure drawing. If you're new to drawing, start with this channel. If you're confident in your ability, can't hurt to have a look.
As a beginner, this is one of the most useful videos I have seen just because it finally puts all "the rules" together in one toolbox and will allow me to get a little better a little faster because now I actually know what to use when! Thank you!
The most important thing that I took from this (and I don't think I grasped it watching hundreds of other videos) was "I'm not a slave to the reference." I really struggle with it still, but I like the idea that there are better ways to describe what I'm seeing than they way they appear in the reference. It's tough, but immensely important, to not be a photocopier when drawing.
I think I'm a slave of contour lines - if I do those lines, my sketches are much more accurate, but very stiff and flat. I'm struggling with that habit.
I realized one day what the different drawing methods are for. They are actually teaching us to perceive our subjects in a certain way. They are really just conceptual studies; teaching concepts. For instance, gesture drawings teach us to be quicker with our lines, and to feel the forms with our spatial awareness. Blind contour drawing teaches us to feel the line rather than the form (per se), and isolates the very process of observation. Perspective drawings teach us the rules of perspective. When the tools/concepts become habit, we have access to them without having to think. Then the subtleties of human expression may come forth without hindrance. These concepts are what I’ve heard others call an “alphabet.” In truth, your eye is already well qualified enough to make the most beautiful art. Consider your ability to recognize the subtleties of faces. Even a beginner can SEE whether or not their drawing is accurate; they just don’t always know how to correct the accuracies they are already seeing. What we are learning here is how to access latent skills we in many ways already possess.
10:00 You notice you start with the hand and not drawing the arm out from the torso. That itself might be a point worth calling out, it's often easier to put the hands where they are and then connect up the arms. (a trick I learned from Sycra) This is especially true, I find, when foreshortened.
Proko's stuff are great too but Kenzo, I swear, I really dig yours more than his. I can't even remember when was the last time I watched his content to learn anatomy/gesture drawing on a deep level. But every time you upload a new video, I make sure to finish it till the last second. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Kenzo: Your energy is so refreshing. Passion without being psychotic or aggressive. Your conversational method is engaging. Perfect blend of technical detail and common, conversational, remember-able language. The clips of your drawing partner (dog) gives your content a level of approachable that draws helps to draw a person into the conversation. Your methods and processes have helped me to get past the places where I get stuck and frustrated. Drawings, of all types, are my way of communicating. I cannot explain anything to anyone without drawing. My former employer would get so angry with me when I would start to draw on the white board (His loss). But I truly feel coupling drawing with presentation of concept gives an interaction that is more accurately remembered and builds a relationship with your audience. Whether that is an audience of 1 or 1000. I cant help but picture you on stage giving an Ted talk on something like "drawing for relaxation", or "drawing as communication" or something else inspiring. I'm thinking you may have a few stories. Who am I? I am an over 50 who is teaching himself drawing, painting and photography to de-stress from his career in Information Tech. I love the feel of the pencil on the paper and the joy of a well executed line. Thank you again
Hey I really appreciate that Jeffrey, it's so encouraging :) Btw, despite what your old boss said, for sure drawing during a presentation makes the experience come alive!
Kenzo, I rlly rlly wish there were more people out there like you I can literally feel the authenticity to help others in your energy I truly am afraid you'd get discouraged cuz u don't get a fraction of the recognition you deserve You truly are a precious human being 💛
I'm so glad I've found you. I love your conversational style, detailed explanations without being verbose and mentor vs teacher approach. Great video! It's the only one I've found showing how all the tools fit together in a concise way
I love this channel so much. As an adult who is self taught and trying to take my drawing more seriously, he explains things in such a way that makes it easy to digest, and it makes me really feel like I can one day be where I want to be even though I didn't grow up filling up sketchbook after sketchbook like other kids I know. Most of my life I admired art, but always thought I could never do it myself other than stupid funny drawings once in a while. This channel, and a few others have been such a great help in my process to understand that I could learn this.
14:52 oh wow, i never really paid attention to details like the focal point bcs in the picture it's not shown that way, im glad i came across actual educational art videos like these, keep up the good work!
Instant level up. Thank you! Your process helps to think about what to draw, instead of where to start and how to keep everything in place. Finally can let go the fear of ruining proportions. It's much easier to enjoy drawing now.
Really liked that idea about adding shading adjacent to lit areas. I have been trying to work out how to make use of the white space on the page. Also, I have a tendency to bog myself down with details as the session progresses for me, and I've done many drawings that looked really interesting only to destroy them with too much detail. As usual I learned so much from this video Kenzo! I will say there were a few things I noticed in the video that I have adopted now, all of which I have learned from you. Still have a way to go, but I can see there'll be shift in my drawing from this week on. Good times! p.s. for some reason, the first thing I draw is the head as well most of the time
I'm off to my second ever Life Drawing Class this week and, as I find them intimidating (being with people who seem to know what they're doing and I'm a novice with NO IDEA of how to approach figure drawing) this for me, is golden. I know it's all about practice but great to have some basic info as well. Will watch this several times over and get back to the rib cage lesson for practice as well - before I slink into that room. 🙂
Great beginning to the video. I love getting 100 different ways of where to start drawing gestures and what to focus on. It makes it not overwhelming at all lol.
Thanks a lot for your videos! I've been learning how to do gesture drawings for a couple of years now and thanks to your videos I've started to understand it more.
Damn. I've been wacthing loads of gesture/figure drawing tutorials, but it never really clicked for me. THIS is such an amazing video, it puts it in a different perspective, using more than just one or two tools for the drawing. Thank you so much.
This the BEST!!! I learn from all of your videos. This one just clicked. It made so much sense. You are a wonderful teacher, I give out your name whenever anyone is looking for direction. Thank you thank you thank you 🌝
yeah that also applies! if you only know anatomy, you end up making every figure into an anatomy diagram and so on. really good to have a selection of tools and allow your design sensibilities dictate which you use and how
This is freaking excellent! My mum is a professional artist and was an art teacher for years… she’s tried to help with to no avail haha, but your instructions have been such a game changer! I can’t wait to go to my next live drawing activity! They’re super popular in my city at the moment
What a wonderful teacher you are! Specifically, let me thank you for how you periodically pause to summarise your previous handful of key points. So much good information can get lost if we aren’t sure how to organise it in our brains. Love how you talk about static v dynamic. This is really gold. I’m making a Kenzo playlist haha. Many, many thanks.
Love this video. It's still a bit difficult for me to know when to use what, especially when I am outside drawing from life and feel the time pressure.
I find it interesting how a lot of fines artists like kenzo and proko on YT use reilly rhythms because I guess it's a method that uses line economy the best (?) maybe in a future video, you could break down some of those concepts especially in laying down those shadow shapes while doing the figure lay-in. Those are the topics I think people will gravitate towards because of how little they are actually broken down. Keep up the good work!
i love to use rhythms and gesture but for figures and in this vid i'm not using reilly rhythms specifically. i have never really used those for figures. i love them for faces though! in case it helps, we have quite a few good vids about finding gesture and then others about simplifying shadow shapes on our channel :)
I kept hearing lots of figure drawing instructors on RUclips taking about Bridgman. This seems very similar to his approach and appears to be a very good method for simple figure drawing.
this is super helpful!! doing some pre-study before i take a figure drawing class. Your videos are super helpful -- I feel like you break things down into really concrete, manageable chunks, and it's very easy to understand your point!! Thanks so much!
I started using blender, playing with lighting cubes, cylinders etc... studying models in turning rotation. playing with animation rig to observe movement. ❤thx
This tutorial and the gesture drawing series has been extreamly helpful for me, all of my problems where discussed prominently in these videos and eventhough im a beginner i'm feeling progress! thank you for this high quality content of yours... i'd also like to suggest you to make a discord server so you can have a comunity of artist helping eachother out on their artworks so as to make even better improvements.. good luck sir!
Really love your videos it's helpful that I find myself taking it one by one when learning anything related to fundamental stuff in art which I most neglect 1 year ago
This video is amazing! Truly transformed how I draw hands. Do you have any videos on figure/gesture drawing or basic anatomy either by yourself or others that you'd be willing to share? You're videos have been a huge help to me lately
What a brilliant video, Kenzo! It’s taken me a few years to get comfortable with figure drawing. For quite some time I was trying to figure out how to bring all of the concepts I’d learned, or was learning, together to make successful drawings consistently. With lots and lots of practice every day, it happened. Now I find myself pulling from my toolbox, much as you did here, to create a figure drawing. Seeing how you do it is extremely helpful for all of us. Thanks for showing us. You’re the best!
Thank You😭 Life Drawing is a requirement because I’m a painting major in my sophomore year I suck a drawing like this (anatomy) on the spot for some odd reason especially because I have anxiety and prefer working alone in peace. Amazing tutorial Thanks again🥰
Another excellent video..I find that I draw the shapes that you are making while you describe the image you are looking at. As they change very quickly, it has helped my speed.
I'm in collage studying art and my teacher laughed today because I naturally use most of the techniques but all at once because I have never trained before but my dad is an artist and art teacher so from a young age I thought this is just how you draw 😂 my teacher said I mash them up together in a way thT works for me only problem is now I have to strip it back and start from the beggining doing one at a time and it's really difficult for me to go backwards haha
well then. this is actually. really really straightforward to me now. this video has really helped my progression. cheers. i got big goals and im glad there are people like you out there
Awesome stuff! This helps reminds me that I really need to cool down my perfectionism when it comes to using references, and focus more on the flow and feel. Thank you!
I feel this; whenever I focus on structure and proportions my poses get stiff, whenever I draw more gesture and flowy the proportions and structure is waaaaaay off. It feels like I have to pick one over the other
I've recently heard that you should start with the most "powerful" line (something like a line of action that's also a countur line) and place the head as the very last thing...
Love that intro, lol. People really don't know how frustrating it is when they tell you "dude just do it, lmao." If I could don't you think I would've already?
My life drawings are getting so much better thanks to your videos. I’m rewatching this one hoping to impress my peers tmrw at our drawing session in the museum (Im pathetic) 😂
Do you have a video on how to draw the arms and legs? I always struggle with making them the right size/shape, especially when it comes to the calves and forearm. I end up making them look huge
Brilliant, as usual. Question - you've mentioned in a couple of videos, a video that addresses how far down the ribcage comes - which one is it? Thanks!
Hi. I have been drawing for 4 years for fun. I’m still a beginner, but I have excellent hand- eye coordination. I want to learn to draw the human figure from imagination and don’t know where to start. I feel as if I need a road map or I find myself just looking at a lot of RUclips videos and feeling overwhelmed because many people are telling to me to start at different places.🙁
Hey, a really good exercise for bridging the gap between drawing from reference and drawing from imagination is to combine the two. Take a reference image and do your drawing as you would - use all your construction and gestrural and tonal techniques etc. THEN do a second drawing where you try to draw the same pose in the same lighting but from a different angle - an imagined one. You’re allowed to use your reference image to draw information on the pose and lighting but you have to imagine how it looks from the back or the side or from above etc. imagine you’re at a life drawing class and you’re all the people around the model at once but you’re only allowed to actually see one angle. You will find it’s a much less stressful exercise when you have a set of limitations and a reference to inform your decisions, but you’ll still be drawing something original that will require you to work the same artistic muscles as when you eventually draw completely original drawings
I just watched a 16-minute video, but I had a tough time grasping the content, even though I was fully focused. I suggest making the material clearer to help viewers understand better. the fact you threw in anatomy is already a big reason why i do not understand the process. Should i learn anatomy before doing poses or is nailing the lines of action necessary to draw anatomy? Because the answer might be "both" how can they be learned in a way that is possible?
Hello good sir. May I ask what drawing tablet you use? I heard Wacom was good for awhile but now just over expensive in comparison to Huion or Xp pen. Any input? Also what desktop or laptop do you have and is it easy for you to connect the two?
just realized I've commented on this video a year ago XD, I'm watching it again and I'm like "hey I didn't know any of these", funny how it felt new. Anyway I have a question, does it matter which one of these "tools" we use in every step? or it totally depends on different mindsets? for example where you saw a 2d abstract shape of the head, I saw the sphere of the skull and drew the browline as a general indicator that shows angel. can we dicuss that certain "tools" are supposed to be used in certain places? thanks for the response in advance
Anyone who reads this comment: this video is a text book example of a learning approach called 'guided mastery' (Albert Bandura/Self-Efficacy theory). Guided mastery involves an instructor describing what they are doing but keeping it within smaller parameters so it doesn't overload your brain but still sinks in. Kenzo does this all the time, and very, very well. It was only today that I realised this because this video is very applicable to where I am currently at with my figure drawing. If you're new to drawing, start with this channel. If you're confident in your ability, can't hurt to have a look.
Thanks John! I haven’t read about that theory but glad I’m doing it :)
Honestly subbed for this comment, never had a full ass yelp review on RUclips before, it’s refreshing.
Thanks
As a beginner, this is one of the most useful videos I have seen just because it finally puts all "the rules" together in one toolbox and will allow me to get a little better a little faster because now I actually know what to use when! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
The most important thing that I took from this (and I don't think I grasped it watching hundreds of other videos) was "I'm not a slave to the reference." I really struggle with it still, but I like the idea that there are better ways to describe what I'm seeing than they way they appear in the reference. It's tough, but immensely important, to not be a photocopier when drawing.
I think I'm a slave of contour lines - if I do those lines, my sketches are much more accurate, but very stiff and flat. I'm struggling with that habit.
I realized one day what the different drawing methods are for. They are actually teaching us to perceive our subjects in a certain way. They are really just conceptual studies; teaching concepts. For instance, gesture drawings teach us to be quicker with our lines, and to feel the forms with our spatial awareness. Blind contour drawing teaches us to feel the line rather than the form (per se), and isolates the very process of observation. Perspective drawings teach us the rules of perspective. When the tools/concepts become habit, we have access to them without having to think. Then the subtleties of human expression may come forth without hindrance. These concepts are what I’ve heard others call an “alphabet.”
In truth, your eye is already well qualified enough to make the most beautiful art. Consider your ability to recognize the subtleties of faces. Even a beginner can SEE whether or not their drawing is accurate; they just don’t always know how to correct the accuracies they are already seeing. What we are learning here is how to access latent skills we in many ways already possess.
Thank you! This comment was like finding a puzzle piece I dropped behind the sofa
Your welcome 🤓
10:00 You notice you start with the hand and not drawing the arm out from the torso. That itself might be a point worth calling out, it's often easier to put the hands where they are and then connect up the arms. (a trick I learned from Sycra) This is especially true, I find, when foreshortened.
Yes that’s a great point. Place the hand first is something I often do 👍
I noticed that too! I often draw the arm first and it does not work that well, so I'm gonna try drawing the hand first :)
Proko's stuff are great too but Kenzo, I swear, I really dig yours more than his. I can't even remember when was the last time I watched his content to learn anatomy/gesture drawing on a deep level. But every time you upload a new video, I make sure to finish it till the last second. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Hey thanks Christian I appreciate it. Proko is fantastic, I learned so much from there too. I’m glad Im adding value here 💪
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Kenzo:
Your energy is so refreshing. Passion without being psychotic or aggressive. Your conversational method is engaging. Perfect blend of technical detail and common, conversational, remember-able language. The clips of your drawing partner (dog) gives your content a level of approachable that draws helps to draw a person into the conversation.
Your methods and processes have helped me to get past the places where I get stuck and frustrated.
Drawings, of all types, are my way of communicating. I cannot explain anything to anyone without drawing. My former employer would get so angry with me when I would start to draw on the white board (His loss). But I truly feel coupling drawing with presentation of concept gives an interaction that is more accurately remembered and builds a relationship with your audience. Whether that is an audience of 1 or 1000.
I cant help but picture you on stage giving an Ted talk on something like "drawing for relaxation", or "drawing as communication" or something else inspiring. I'm thinking you may have a few stories.
Who am I? I am an over 50 who is teaching himself drawing, painting and photography to de-stress from his career in Information Tech. I love the feel of the pencil on the paper and the joy of a well executed line.
Thank you again
Hey I really appreciate that Jeffrey, it's so encouraging :) Btw, despite what your old boss said, for sure drawing during a presentation makes the experience come alive!
Kenzo, I rlly rlly wish there were more people out there like you
I can literally feel the authenticity to help others in your energy
I truly am afraid you'd get discouraged cuz u don't get a fraction of the recognition you deserve
You truly are a precious human being 💛
thanks Asser that means a lot :)
Kenzo should make a tier list of most to least important steps to creating a figure
I really need to start focusing on the overall shapes compared to scratching away at tiny details early on like you said. Great video and tips ❤
I love it. How the figure just pops out magically when you add the shadow.
I'm so glad I've found you. I love your conversational style, detailed explanations without being verbose and mentor vs teacher approach. Great video! It's the only one I've found showing how all the tools fit together in a concise way
Simple, enlightening, concise, patient and easy to understand. Now that is great teaching. Lovely.
I love this channel so much. As an adult who is self taught and trying to take my drawing more seriously, he explains things in such a way that makes it easy to digest, and it makes me really feel like I can one day be where I want to be even though I didn't grow up filling up sketchbook after sketchbook like other kids I know. Most of my life I admired art, but always thought I could never do it myself other than stupid funny drawings once in a while. This channel, and a few others have been such a great help in my process to understand that I could learn this.
Fantastic video, Kenzo. I always learn so much from your figure drawing videos!
thank you Kevin!
14:52 oh wow, i never really paid attention to details like the focal point bcs in the picture it's not shown that way, im glad i came across actual educational art videos like these, keep up the good work!
Instant level up. Thank you! Your process helps to think about what to draw, instead of where to start and how to keep everything in place. Finally can let go the fear of ruining proportions. It's much easier to enjoy drawing now.
i can't express how much i love this channel
Really liked that idea about adding shading adjacent to lit areas. I have been trying to work out how to make use of the white space on the page. Also, I have a tendency to bog myself down with details as the session progresses for me, and I've done many drawings that looked really interesting only to destroy them with too much detail. As usual I learned so much from this video Kenzo! I will say there were a few things I noticed in the video that I have adopted now, all of which I have learned from you. Still have a way to go, but I can see there'll be shift in my drawing from this week on. Good times! p.s. for some reason, the first thing I draw is the head as well most of the time
I'm off to my second ever Life Drawing Class this week and, as I find them intimidating (being with people who seem to know what they're doing and I'm a novice with NO IDEA of how to approach figure drawing) this for me, is golden. I know it's all about practice but great to have some basic info as well. Will watch this several times over and get back to the rib cage lesson for practice as well - before I slink into that room. 🙂
i have been crying why some of my drawings don't see .... light! I was sobbing with gratitude .... thank you. 😊
Great beginning to the video. I love getting 100 different ways of where to start drawing gestures and what to focus on. It makes it not overwhelming at all lol.
I love your teaching style and pace. Clear, simple and concise. Looking forward to see more!
Thanks a lot for your videos! I've been learning how to do gesture drawings for a couple of years now and thanks to your videos I've started to understand it more.
Damn. I've been wacthing loads of gesture/figure drawing tutorials, but it never really clicked for me. THIS is such an amazing video, it puts it in a different perspective, using more than just one or two tools for the drawing. Thank you so much.
Love ur references ❤such a nice combination of dynamism and light/shadow play. Mark is wonderful 🎉
Thanks so much! 😊
This the BEST!!! I learn from all of your videos. This one just clicked. It made so much sense. You are a wonderful teacher, I give out your name whenever anyone is looking for direction. Thank you thank you thank you 🌝
0:33 You reminded me this Abraham Maslow's : "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail
yeah that also applies! if you only know anatomy, you end up making every figure into an anatomy diagram and so on. really good to have a selection of tools and allow your design sensibilities dictate which you use and how
This is freaking excellent! My mum is a professional artist and was an art teacher for years… she’s tried to help with to no avail haha, but your instructions have been such a game changer! I can’t wait to go to my next live drawing activity! They’re super popular in my city at the moment
That is awesome!
Oh my god, thank you for making this. When I try and study gesture, everyone has their own method and it's so difficult to know what to study in a day
Your teaching style is very, very effective! Thanks!
I go to art school myself but none of my teachers have been able to break down poses and explain perspective in such a way like you do. Thank you 🫶
thank you!
I really liked the shading to bring out the light side! I can see those Lane Brown influences coming in! CONTRAST. Wow!
Hey thanks Joel! Love it when a plan comes together!
What a wonderful teacher you are! Specifically, let me thank you for how you periodically pause to summarise your previous handful of key points. So much good information can get lost if we aren’t sure how to organise it in our brains. Love how you talk about static v dynamic. This is really gold. I’m making a Kenzo playlist haha. Many, many thanks.
Love this video. It's still a bit difficult for me to know when to use what, especially when I am outside drawing from life and feel the time pressure.
this is the most helpful video on figure drawing I've seen, thank you !
I find it interesting how a lot of fines artists like kenzo and proko on YT use reilly rhythms because I guess it's a method that uses line economy the best (?)
maybe in a future video, you could break down some of those concepts especially in laying down those shadow shapes while doing the figure lay-in. Those are the topics I think people will gravitate towards because of how little they are actually broken down. Keep up the good work!
i love to use rhythms and gesture but for figures and in this vid i'm not using reilly rhythms specifically. i have never really used those for figures. i love them for faces though! in case it helps, we have quite a few good vids about finding gesture and then others about simplifying shadow shapes on our channel :)
Wowwww! This video is full of nuggets of gold!!!! I love how you work with value! Supper cool!
I kept hearing lots of figure drawing instructors on RUclips taking about Bridgman. This seems very similar to his approach and appears to be a very good method for simple figure drawing.
this is super helpful!! doing some pre-study before i take a figure drawing class. Your videos are super helpful -- I feel like you break things down into really concrete, manageable chunks, and it's very easy to understand your point!! Thanks so much!
I started using blender, playing with lighting cubes, cylinders etc... studying models in turning rotation. playing with animation rig to observe movement. ❤thx
This tutorial and the gesture drawing series has been extreamly helpful for me, all of my problems where discussed prominently in these videos and eventhough im a beginner i'm feeling progress!
thank you for this high quality content of yours... i'd also like to suggest you to make a discord server so you can have a comunity of artist helping eachother out on their artworks so as to make even better improvements.. good luck sir!
thank you brother I'm starting out to drawing and got confused with figure drawing this helps me understand it more
This is a very watchable method of teaching
Really love your videos it's helpful that I find myself taking it one by one when learning anything related to fundamental stuff in art which I most neglect 1 year ago
Thank you. Seeing all the techniques discussed on a single drawing really has helped me to see how they mesh together.
Immediately subscribing after seeing this video. You have incredible teaching skills
This video is amazing! Truly transformed how I draw hands. Do you have any videos on figure/gesture drawing or basic anatomy either by yourself or others that you'd be willing to share? You're videos have been a huge help to me lately
As an art teacher, I'm always looking for ways to communicate these fundamentals. Your delivery is fantastic! "Pelvis pants!"
Careful that’s trademarked (just kidding). Im so glad you liked it!
Amazing video. You are a brilliant teacher!
I learnt so much from this. I'm going to watch this repeatedly in between my gesture drawing sessions!
Bro your videos are so relaxing for some reason. They give me asmr lmaooo i feel so relaxed during these videos
Glad you like them!
FINALLY. something useful. i ve been looking for it for ages literally
What a brilliant video, Kenzo! It’s taken me a few years to get comfortable with figure drawing. For quite some time I was trying to figure out how to bring all of the concepts I’d learned, or was learning, together to make successful drawings consistently. With lots and lots of practice every day, it happened. Now I find myself pulling from my toolbox, much as you did here, to create a figure drawing. Seeing how you do it is extremely helpful for all of us. Thanks for showing us. You’re the best!
Thanks Barbara! You’ve worked so hard and it’s paid off
That's a very useful video, thank you!
oh god - this video couldn't come at a better time - the 20 sec intro is exactly how I constantly feel
Amazing and perfectly educating vid. So incredibly helpful I cannot begin to express
Thank You😭 Life Drawing is a requirement because I’m a painting major in my sophomore year I suck a drawing like this (anatomy) on the spot for some odd reason especially because I have anxiety and prefer working alone in peace. Amazing tutorial Thanks again🥰
Another excellent video..I find that I draw the shapes that you are making while you describe the image you are looking at. As they change very quickly, it has helped my speed.
I'm in collage studying art and my teacher laughed today because I naturally use most of the techniques but all at once because I have never trained before but my dad is an artist and art teacher so from a young age I thought this is just how you draw 😂 my teacher said I mash them up together in a way thT works for me only problem is now I have to strip it back and start from the beggining doing one at a time and it's really difficult for me to go backwards haha
well then. this is actually. really really straightforward to me now. this video has really helped my progression. cheers. i got big goals and im glad there are people like you out there
glad it helped!
Awesome stuff! This helps reminds me that I really need to cool down my perfectionism when it comes to using references, and focus more on the flow and feel. Thank you!
One of the best advice I heard was "just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there"
That’s very helpful, thank you very much!
thnx for sharing your process. Great information.
I feel this; whenever I focus on structure and proportions my poses get stiff, whenever I draw more gesture and flowy the proportions and structure is waaaaaay off. It feels like I have to pick one over the other
10:40 is probably the best way ive ever heard shape simplification explained.
ps: Overall fantastic video!!!
Great help thanks , need to find more time to practice
I've recently heard that you should start with the most "powerful" line (something like a line of action that's also a countur line) and place the head as the very last thing...
Love that intro, lol. People really don't know how frustrating it is when they tell you "dude just do it, lmao." If I could don't you think I would've already?
Loved the video, you've managed to explain everything very clearly! A quick question though, what pencils were you using in this video? Thanx ❤
thank you, good knowledge and explanations
My life drawings are getting so much better thanks to your videos. I’m rewatching this one hoping to impress my peers tmrw at our drawing session in the museum (Im pathetic) 😂
Have fun!
what a superb video - nice one!!!
This video is extremely useful for learning figure drawing!
Hey mate happy new year!!
When you were referring to gestures/squash and stretch I’m reminded of Force Drawing and Mike Mattesi.
Cheers mate!
Killer Video, subscribed. Not sure why this channel has been hiding but I'm here now!!
Do you have a video on how to draw the arms and legs? I always struggle with making them the right size/shape, especially when it comes to the calves and forearm. I end up making them look huge
yeah we have one about arms and one about hips and thighs. nothing yet for lower legs
Mate, this is a great video
Thank you!
i really loved this this, very helpful, helped me a lot in how to put all the skills together, thank you i appreciate it.
Brilliant, as usual. Question - you've mentioned in a couple of videos, a video that addresses how far down the ribcage comes - which one is it? Thanks!
Oh good point I should have linked it. Will do later. It’s called “the most important anatomy idea is also very simple” or something like thst
so helpful!!! THANKS
Thank you!
Hi. I have been drawing for 4 years for fun. I’m still a beginner, but I have excellent hand- eye coordination. I want to learn to draw the human figure from imagination and don’t know where to start. I feel as if I need a road map or I find myself just looking at a lot of RUclips videos and feeling overwhelmed because many people are telling to me to start at different places.🙁
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Hey, a really good exercise for bridging the gap between drawing from reference and drawing from imagination is to combine the two. Take a reference image and do your drawing as you would - use all your construction and gestrural and tonal techniques etc. THEN do a second drawing where you try to draw the same pose in the same lighting but from a different angle - an imagined one. You’re allowed to use your reference image to draw information on the pose and lighting but you have to imagine how it looks from the back or the side or from above etc.
imagine you’re at a life drawing class and you’re all the people around the model at once but you’re only allowed to actually see one angle. You will find it’s a much less stressful exercise when you have a set of limitations and a reference to inform your decisions, but you’ll still be drawing something original that will require you to work the same artistic muscles as when you eventually draw completely original drawings
magnificent video
So much knowledges for newbie like me.
I felt the intro so much!
I needed this video!
Really educational
I just watched a 16-minute video, but I had a tough time grasping the content, even though I was fully focused. I suggest making the material clearer to help viewers understand better. the fact you threw in anatomy is already a big reason why i do not understand the process. Should i learn anatomy before doing poses or is nailing the lines of action necessary to draw anatomy? Because the answer might be "both" how can they be learned in a way that is possible?
Hello good sir. May I ask what drawing tablet you use? I heard Wacom was good for awhile but now just over expensive in comparison to Huion or Xp pen. Any input?
Also what desktop or laptop do you have and is it easy for you to connect the two?
Wonderful,this ist what I was looking for.😊
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Hehe good luck!
it was super fun. thank you
I watched it again. I laughed again at the beginning. THANKS!
I've been waiting for this video
So helpful, Thank You!!!
great!
just realized I've commented on this video a year ago XD, I'm watching it again and I'm like "hey I didn't know any of these", funny how it felt new. Anyway I have a question, does it matter which one of these "tools" we use in every step? or it totally depends on different mindsets? for example where you saw a 2d abstract shape of the head, I saw the sphere of the skull and drew the browline as a general indicator that shows angel. can we dicuss that certain "tools" are supposed to be used in certain places?
thanks for the response in advance