Gesture And Figure Drawing In Black And White For Beginners

Basics of Human Figure Drawing

What you'll learn

Students will learn about lines of action and how to block in figures

Students will learn how to do gesture drawing and quick sketch studies of figures

Students will learn methods to draw foreshortening

Students will learn how to do complete figure drawings

Requirements

No experience is needed. Students should have pencils, paper, charcoal pencils, charcoal, colored pencils, erasers, and black and gray paper

Description

Students will learn how to draw human figures.  Students will learn how to draw lines of action and directional lines of the body and its parts.  The students will learn how to do this by printing out figures and drawing on top of the print.  The line of action will be an imaginary line that travels through the body.  Students will learn how to block in areas of the body in terms of breaking it up into shapes.  Students will draw a shape for the torso, pelvis, and head on top of the major line of action.  Students will then make shapes for the different parts of the arms and legs.  Students will learn the basic proportions of the standing human figure.  Students will learn how to do quick and loose gesture drawing in different poses.  Students will learn different methods to create foreshortening in figure drawing.  Foreshortening is when parts of the body appear shorter because they are in perspective.  Students will try the coil drawing method and putting parts of the body or the whole body in perspective boxes.  Students will practice sketching hands, feet, legs, arms, and the torso.  Students will then move into doing longer, more detailed figure drawings on black paper, white paper, and gray paper. 

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Starting Figure Drawing

Lecture 2 Lines of Actions Over Drawings

Lecture 3 Proportions of Figure

Lecture 4 Gesture Drawing

Lecture 5 Foreshortening

Section 3: Practicing Drawing Parts of the Body

Lecture 6 Sketching Hands

Lecture 7 Sketching Feet

Lecture 8 Sketching Arms

Lecture 9 Sketching Legs 1

Lecture 10 Sketching Legs 2

Lecture 11 Drawing a Torso

Section 4: Completed Figure Drawings

Lecture 12 Blocking in the Figure on Black Paper

Lecture 13 Shading the Figure on Black Paper

Lecture 14 Blocking in the Figure on Gray Paper

Lecture 15 Adding a Layer of Shading to a Figure Drawing on Gray Paper

Lecture 16 Last Layer of Drawing on Gray Paper

Lecture 17 Blocking in the Figure on White Paper

Lecture 18 Adding a Layer to the Figure Drawing on White Paper

Beginning students who want to learn figure drawing