Figure Drawing Fundamentals
Gesture
The Bean
Structure
Landmarks
Robo Bean
Mannequinization
Balance
Exaggeration
Proportions
Measuring
Shading
Figure Drawing Demo
Closing Thoughts
Mannequinization Assignment Example 1
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Mannequinization Assignment Example 1
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The first example of drawing the human figure with a focus on structure.
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Jean-Nicolas Bouchard
2mo
you are truly a great drawer @Stan Prokopenko !
Dre Torres
3mo
Tips? Advice?
Eveline Rupenko
5mo
Hi, before taking the assignment I was drawing along with Stan to understand the Method better! here and below the next videos I'll be attaching my copies
Samuel Sanjaya
5mo
My second attempt at mannequinization. I still have some trouble with proportion, especially on the tapering in the leg area. I need some feedback and help on this..
Eugene Constable
6mo
Hey - Im using willow charcoal sticks to draw (on cheap newsprint paper) , I love the softness (and the rub-out your mistakes ability!) but really hard to control. What to people use most to draw with for these exercises? Ta
Chris Martin
8mo
First attempt - feedback welcomed
Douglas Duffy
8mo
second attempt during my follow along session. phew
Dre Torres
4mo
I would recommend doing one per page instead of shoving two or three on a page. By manually limiting how much space you have to draw you’re not really giving yourself the space to fully grasp the concept because drawing bigger is always a good way to learn.
Gian Amir Calibuso
9mo
💀
prymitywizm
9mo
Its awesome. You clearly understand what you are doing.
I love the way you are attaching an arm to a torso - this is for me the hardest part of mannequinization and I couldnt make it look not-wonky. I am sooo stealing this idea
Isaiah
9mo
Accurate. Good gesture. And very clean lines. Quite inspiring!
Mark Manthorpe
1yr
Another set of Mannequinization studies.
As the studies go along I begin to focus more on the shoulders as I struggle with drawing the shoulders. :)
Allison TerBush
1yr
I totally got lost on the neck/back muscles and between that and the hair helmet my drawing really got muddied… I think I’ll stick to the basics before trying to add muscle volume again. I might also need to sharpen my pencil.
I’ll echo those saying that this is a big leap from the robo bean- I totally agree. Hopefully it’ll get better with some more practice.
vahn84
1yr
Hi guys! This is my work on the first assignment...i did watch how Stan solved a bunch of thing though. What do you think? Is it good enough to keep exercising on the mannequin?
Sandra Süsser
1yr
mannequin exercise #2
Barbara Lentes
2yr
soronder
2yr
For me the jump from the "robo bean" to the "mannquinization" is a big one. It would have helped to have additional lessons in between to practice the shapes for the different body parts. It would also have helped if Stan would explain what he is doing during the session. I only started with this chapter. Maybe it works out in the end.
dwt12345
1yr
I feel like there's a bit of a leap between how he presents mannequization in the lesson (putting together a bunch of simple forms like boxes, cylinders) to the way that he actually does them in these examples, which seems to me like just drawing out a very slightly simplified organic 3d form with extra wrapping lines. I guess it just requires existing strong understanding of prior concepts like gesture and landmarks.
But yeah I'm totally with you- I have basically no clue how to do any of this beyond the torso and the skull haha. I'll probably just do a ton of gesture practice and hope that helps, or maybe look at the anatomy course.
rigloo
2yr
i feel the same :)
Melissa Gebauer
2yr
My draw-along attempt :)
Tried hard to truly build up the structure from gesture to robobean to mannequin instead of looking at the contour. I think I should've exaggerated the gesture so that the position of her torso was more erect, she appears to be leaning forward a little in comparison to the reference.
Feedback is highly appreciated!
joseph_maxwell
2yr
after looking at others, I def feel like I am missing something
joseph_maxwell
2yr
great feedback!
cathy hayes
2yr
I totally agree with the feedback about the torso and losing the 3D quality there. But the first thing that struck me was the head. The ball of the cranium is huge- and goes too low at the back. I you feel the back of your own head, you will feel how high the neck starts at the back.
Laura Estrada
2yr
Mmmmm actually what I'd like to say is you're already halfway there!
Notice how you're doing the arms and legs. You're putting them together as stacks of cylinders and boxes. That's perfect!
Now notice how you're doing the ribcage and pelvis. I'm not seeing these stacks of basic shapes there anymore. Currently, the entire torso area feels flat in your work because you're letting the contours distract you! You're copying surface lines of the skin (or trying to make them up) instead of laying down the structure underneath.
As I said, in the arms and legs you already got a pretty solid foundation for how your mannequins should look and feel. Try to apply that to the torso. The clearest way I can think about it is, try to draw the whole body as if it were made of legos. :)
cherrykotah
2yr
My first attempt of drawing this mannequin, drew this before I got this blessing course and struggled how small my sketchbook were. I see how some people use some kind of uh board like a surface to draw(???) for figure drawings and some very smooth paper really curious about the board and papers they were using to draw, any recommendations(preferably cheap one)would save my life. thank you!
joeoneill
2yr
I guess you’re talking about smooth newsprint paper which is an off-white and extremely cheap drawing paper, perfect for quick charcoal sketches and general practicing. The board I bought is literally just a smooth piece of wood called a ‘drawing board’, used with sturdy metal clips to stop the paper moving. I think Stan also goes over his supplies in a video in the figure course.
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Simeon Kotov
2yr
peepmyjeep
2yr
That's dope
Nihi Sus
2yr
I thought you should do a gesture drawing first and then go over it with structure but Proko went straight into the structure it seems
Ron Kempke
2yr
I, too, was disappointed that Stan didn't start with a gesture. I don't know if it was intentional but his drawing differs from the model's pose. The model is erect but she leans forward in Stan's drawing. If it wasn't intentional, a gesture drawing would have prevented it from happening.
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Peter Tinkler
2yr
This is my first mannequinization drawing, which I thoroughly enjoyed. This is hard! My method is to draw the pose in the assignment, and then watch it back and see where I've gone wrong. The shoulders on mine are a bit vague, and the side of the torso seems ropey as well. It seems to make sense to me to simplify the shoulders as spheres/balls, so I find that bit really tricky. Also, my upper back, although obscured, isn't constructed with confidence. Here's to more practice.
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