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Dive into gesture drawing's why, what, and how, mastering techniques like the 16-line method and shape gestures to capture the figure's essence.
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Educator, painter, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention and Gesture Drawing: Dynamic Movement and Form.
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Use what you learned to create your own proportion chart.
- Mark Out Your 8 Sections:
Make a chart dividing the figure into eight equal parts, from the head to the pelvis. - Detail Upper Body:
Divide the upper sections into thirds to accurately place the rib cage. - Add Main Body Parts:
Draw the head, rib cage, and pelvis, considering how they align with the spine. - Sketch Limb Positions:
Outline the legs with simple lines to show their direction.
Deadline - submit by Feb 16, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Here is my attempt for the proportions assignment. The left image is my attempt before the critique, the right image is after watching the critique video.
@Steven Michael Hampton how often would you say we should come back to this exercise for tweaks or corrections as an artist or just making sure we remember the proportions? Every 3 months?
Can always refine the charts but what caught my interest now were the proportions of children. I sketched in a toddler without any reference more than this chart of an adult. I found some material/charts online, that a toddler is about 4 heads tall, how it scales up with age etc., but no books on the subject to study it deeper. I got inspired by Glen Keane's short film Duet were he most have a fundamental grasp of children anatomy. Does anyone have any recommendation of courses/books/clips? Or you @Steven Michael Hampton? Or maybe children anatomy is just adult anatomy but smaller?
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The Andrew Loomis chart is usually my go to. You can easily find it online. There's also some good information in the Anatomy for Sculptors book.
Ended up doing two, the first one was working alongside Michael and the second one was through memory on my own
I just added to the notes I took as I watched previous video. The first pic is a little hard to see, but everything is level and square. The 2nd pic is closer, but at an angle, so it exaggerates and distorts (just sharing so you can see details more clearly). If anything is unclear or needs improvement, feel free to let me know. Thanks
Hi everybody ! Thanks for the great lesson. Useful concept and i will transpose it to others animals and maybe play with proportions to see what happened.
Good day and have fun.
This was pretty fun! I'm glad I can finally draw someone with proper proportions, feedback would be much appreciated 🙂
I popped over here after doing the gesture lessons in the Drawing Basics course and have to say I'm really enjoying this course so far. I really like how straight forward Michael's explanations are. Anyway, here's my first attempt at drawing these proportions.
I think I'll make drawing this a part of my warmups for a little while. I really want to internalize this.
Done one day after watching the instruction based on the notes taken during the video.
