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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
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Part 2 of a step by step workflow for drawing figures. This lesson goes through the step by step thought process for drawing figures.
Just got back from learning anatomy so I had a huge knowledge and skill gap, and figure construction ties neatly to close that gap! This course is so informative and builds good practice in the long run
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19h
Awesome. Nice studies!
You are my hero Micheal Hampton. Wishing everyone all the best and keep drawing figures. I have seen improvement after not judging my figures, every figure is a good figure just kept doing them and revisited the course materials, sometimes it also helps me to draw the lessons taught from the book like in this image. I came to terms now that I will be drawing figures for the rest of my life, no reason to judge them now.
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1mo
Awesome work! Also, I think that's the best possible take away to leave the course with. Congratulations 👏
Maybe this will clarify. At 10:55 You comment on the importance of the line inside. Inside of what? The line of what? I suspect this is very basic but I am really unclear on this and would appreciate any clarification.
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5mo
Inside the forms. I am attempting to draw attention to the importance of building three dimensional form through thinking of a volumetric subject and not outlining a figure. Volume is communicated through the involvement of line around and on top of the forms we develop. This is again a restatement of the early principles of form intersections, wrapping lines, and overlaps.
At 10:21 you describe an S curve which I can’t see. I see a C? Like the line of symmetry.Following this you communicate the line relative to the dominant form. What would tell me what is dominant…that which is front? In other words, why must the hip be dominant to the flank? Thank you.
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5mo
I'm drawing the connection on the left side at 10:21. I'm thinking of this line as an "S" even though its longer and thinner. If you see a "C" curve, that's fine, but my intention is to organize specific lines to represent the pinch v stretch.
At this stage in the drawing the core masses (shapes of rib cage and pelvis) are dominant forms which my connections (S=stretch and C=pinch) are attempting to attach to (this is a continuation of the earlier lesson on form intersections).
I'm using the idea of a dominant form to help call back to that lesson and make the emphasis on the idea of line to build continuity with the egg shapes. This is done here through "T" overlaps and wrapping lines. This has nothing to do with the hip v the flank. It's more about how I'm thinking with the language of line and drawing.
Hope this helps to answer your questions.
I did my best
I haven't practiced in a while due to work and life happening, but here we are :D
PS You're the best at teaching anatomy
Hey, I was wondering if there was anyway you could put in the downloads the photos you use as reference in your videos? I find it very useful to put the photos alongside my drawing while using Procreate to follow along and have a reference for my notes and so I can compare the two. Anyway, just figured I'd ask. If it's too much of a pain then don't worry about it. Thanks so much for all your work! Your teaching style is easy to follow and I have learned so much from all your videos.
Using colored pencils helped me not lose the figure when using the gesture for the under drawings before putting in the shapes. Question. Do you recommend finishing the gesture course 1st before finishing the figure construction course since Gesture is you 1st step in your workflow in construction?
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7mo
I don't think you have to. There's enough gesture info in the figure construction course to get by!
I'm still not really understand how to measure the body into 8 lines because some people might taller or shorter than her but I understand the rest of the video.
I'm a bit confused about the goal of this approach. I get why we do the gesture and landmarks, but I don't see the use of drawing the boxes. Aren't loosing the work underneath it? Can't we just start drawing anatomy on once we've done the connections and landmarks?
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9mo
Sure! Just as long as that's enough of an explanation of planes and perspective to place anatomy correctly. But yes, feel free to customize the process how you like.
My notes from the lesson. I've always struggled a bit with with placement of my cylinders, but they're so helpful for understanding perspective!
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9mo
Very cool!
Not sure how well I did on this one but I am enjoying the class and the book so far!
This assignment was helpful for furthering my understanding of how figures are able to look more 3D when drawn in shapes. I will continue to practice this, I had fun in my attempt here.
Notes from the lesson. I feel like it's starting to come together and lessons from books I've drawn through are being reinforced/tweaked. I can't wait to get into seated and lying poses because I really struggle with that when reading Figure Drawing for All It's Worth.
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11mo
Great job!
I find myself struggling with gestures (getting them in the "right" place for correct proportions) and my figures always look strange. I have watched quite a few videos/classes - yours and others - thinking that if I keep learning it might click. Now I'm thinking maybe I need to be practicing more on my own - just trying to draw figures from references for a few days instead of just trying to "actively learn"
Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing or thoughts? I might be too academically minded for my own good and skipping over the practice in favour of lessons.
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1yr
Mixing it up and following your intuition is best. You know how to learn best for yourself. Watching me or others do it may be helpful to a point then you have to take over.
I'm curious as to why you only use parallel lines during perspective. Are there cases where you use 2 or 3 point perspective, and if you did would you apply it during that step?
Annoying me? Nah. The insights are excellent and the view into your process is super helpful.
So, can I assume then, that from stage 5, if you're going to costume the figure, you don't necessarily need to get to anatomy? I say this because I can imagine that when there are costumes that don't completely cover a portion of the body, say the upper body, you're gonna need to add the anatomy (or as much of it as you need/want to)?
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1yr
Exactly.
