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Capturing the Human Form Through Figure Drawing

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Overview

In this tutorial, we'll learn how you can start, or add new techniques to create detailed human-figure drawings. Software required: Photoshop CS6.

In this tutorial, we'll learn how you can start, or add new techniques to create detailed human-figure drawings. We'll begin this process by introducing a photo of the model we'll be drawing from and learn how we can establish the overall pose with basic lines of action. Following this we'll explore capturing the model's form through different gesture drawing exercises. From here we'll break down one of our gesture drawings into a series of simple shapes to create an armature to draw our contour lines around and refine the form's shape and proportion. Following this we'll begin to map the prominent shadows and add volume to the form by building up our values. Finally, we'll spend some time blending values and refining the overall form of our figure drawing. Software required: Photoshop CS6.

Syllabus

  • Introduction and Project Overview 1min
  • Capturing the Human Form Through Figure Drawing 110mins

Taught by

Kurt Jones

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