Constructing Figures From Primitive Shapes
Constructing Figures From Primitive Shapes
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Introduction to Figure Construction

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Constructing Figures From Primitive Shapes

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Constructing Figures From Primitive Shapes

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Michael Hampton
Part 1 of a step by step workflow for drawing figures. This lesson emphasizes the fundamentals and lessons covered in first 5 parts.
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Carl Harrison
Hi all and Michael, here is my attempt at the lesson, would really appreciate any feed back or comments. Really learning a lot from the concepts in the course. Onto the next lesson. All the best!
Piyush LALWANI
hi sir, i have one doubt in work flow, many of time we are been asked to draw line or lines of action why i said lines casue (in some case we are asked to draw two lines like c and s curves). but in workflow you seems to omitted that part any particular reason behnd it ?
Michael Hampton
There are lessons on the gesture later on in the course. If you do have questions there feel free to jump ahead and see if those videos help. Otherwise, please feel at liberty to augment the workflow any way that feels comfortable.
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4mo
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Eyes of Lamia
Wow these are so good!
@lucastoonz86
I find I’m not the greatest with proportion or perspective but it maybe improving
@bumatehewok
Very information dense lessons makes my head hurt after each video! I am curious if you use this process for live quick figure drawing. Would you still try to go through step by step for say a 2 min pose? Would you limit or expand the number of steps you try to achieve based on the length of a pose? I guess this assuming you do quick poses at all.
Michael Hampton
I do use this as a framework for life drawing, definitely. And sure, I'll sometimes collapse, edit, or tweak steps. After a while though, once you internalize the lesson of each step, you can really just collapse it down into a direct line.
@tap3werm
4mo
Thank you Mr. Hampton.
Ter L
5mo
I made some drawing combining what was discussed in this lesson with what I've already been doing. I feel like the biggest challenge is to ignore the silhouette and essentially drawing the skeleton only. I do see that with this method, you get much more appealing gestures, since you aren't mistaking the bumps of flesh as part of the gesture. I definitely learned a lot here!
Michael Hampton
Excellent work!
@casildius
6mo
I'm likely going to revise this lecture since I was exhausted prior to starting it, as for the drawing I think the legs and the distance between the hips and chest are clearly the most erring (do add any observations if I messed any else) I understand the approach, you're laying down the gesture lines and then adding shapes to better place the anatomy in later stages ( if I'm correct) But is it possible to do just the gesture lines and immediately begin filling in the details of the body? If so do you demonstrate that in later lectures or know any artist which does what I've described? Also here is the picture of my attempt
Michael Hampton
I'm sure there are artists that lay in the gesture and then go right to details, unfortunately I'm not aware of any. And, no, I don't do that later on. You can, however, check out the rendering videos. Those might have more of what you're looking for.
@amaka45
6mo
Had to revisit this assignment...
sara keyes
6mo
Martin Vrkljan
Approaching this in stages as described really keeps thing simple and helpful in later stages. I found it helpful to turn the cylinders into a kind of a "bread" shape by just "slicing" off one part of it to give it hard edges.
maciek szczech
240316 Sakura sketchbook, Mechanical pencil HB.
Nia Kovalevski
maciek szczech
I like how the lines "flow", giving a sense of movement.
Michael Hampton
Nice drawings!
JJ
8mo
Tried to take my time through the course. I struggle greatly with perspective, "clean lines" and form intersections. I found having the list to fall back on was helpful when I would get stuck or confused.
Michael Hampton
Great to hear! Studies look good. Just keep at it. It's all about repetition. No doubt you'll get it with more time.
@boltart48
8mo
I've been using your gesture methods for a while but I never went further than that despite my efforts, this video got me into attempting Construction over gesture properly for the first time. I'll make some attempts with some different gestures while doing this process.
Michael Hampton
Awesome!
@amaka45
9mo
@gabemartini
following along, i really like how the steps build over each other and the structure starts appearing as you find the forms. I assume things like muscle would start to build over this in a similar way?
Michael Hampton
Yes, 100% Muscle would just be smaller perspective forms that pinch and stretch relative to the placement of the structure. So glad you're finding it useful
Ali Ali
9mo
Attempt at this task
Michael Hampton
Nice!!!
Adam Blake
9mo
I didn't put in as much tilt and I my torso was too long the first pass.
Michael Hampton
It happens. Otherwise, it looks pretty good.
@carlomagno
Followed along, though I worry about mindlessly copying vs being able to apply my knowledge.
Gannon Beck
If you're worried about copying too much, try doing some of your own using the timer tool on Proko. All these skills take a certain amount of reps before they feel natural.
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