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Figure drawing: Basic Pose and Construction

Figure drawing: Basic Pose and Construction
1. Introduction This method is to help you draw the human form. It is by no means the best way or even a fast way. Instead, this method is aimed at thinking and setting up the human form in a threedimensional space. Classical animation (most notably Disney) uses a similar way of setting up their characters. Using this method will help you form your thoughts on the human body posing on paper rather than in your mind. 2. Basic anatomy Stickfigures Wait, don't go away yet! Let's take a look at stickfigures. Lesson Try to draw these standing stickfigures and see if you master their proportions. Body language Stickfigures, again Now that you know how important it is to master proportions through simple stick figures, we go to the next use of stickfigures: 'the pose'. Stickfigures in action Here are a few examples how you can use a stickfigure to determine a pose. Lesson Try drawing stickfigures in action. Balance When you set up a pose, you will need to take into account its center of gravity.

'All the Wrong Reasons' Everyone makes experimental films when they dream. Dreams are picture-driven, non-linear quilts of movie-like moments sprinkled with cryptic epiphanies. They play nightly in the private cinema of your head but the rub is the audience must be asleep. Then again, maybe sleep, or at least the suspension of conscious thought, is the ideal state for entering such a movie. “All the Wrong Reasons” is an experiment in making a film that feels as if it has percolated up from the subconscious; a dream you can watch with your eyes open. There are almost 3,000 paintings and collages in this film. W234f4r How to Draw a Face (with pictures) Steps Method 1 of 3: A Female Face, Sketched 1Make a light outline of a face. Heads are never circular, they are oval shaped, like an egg. 12Clean. Method 2 of 3: Male 1Drawing lightly, sketch a circle. 2Draw a line at the middle starting from the top and ending where the chin would be. 11Optional: add shading to the drawing if needed. Method 3 of 3: Female Face 1Draw the shape of the head you have in mind. 2Add lines to determine the center of the face and the position of the eyes. 3Sketch lines to define how wide, tall, and the placement of the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. 4Sketch the shape and appearance of the eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and eyebrows. 5Sketch the shape of the hair and neck. 6Use a smaller tipped drawing tool to add the finer details of the face. 7Draw the outline using the sketch as a guide. 8Erase and remove the sketch marks to produce a clean outlined drawing. 9Add color and shading to the drawing. Tips Practice makes perfect.Don't give up. Ad Article Info

Drawing Hands This short tutorial is a just a small taste of a larger and much more in-depth book I wrote called The Mad Art of Caricature! The book is 175 full-color pages, lavishly illustrated and contains greatly expanded explanations of the concepts presented in this tutorials, as well and a great deal of additional material on caricaturing other facial features, posture, hands, expression and more, techniques on drawing from live models, doing caricature for freelance illustration and for MAD Magazine. This is a must have book for anyone interested in caricature, cartooning or humorous illustration. You can order it online here. How to Draw Hands Easily the most asked question I get is “how do you draw caricatures?”. Next to faces, hands are probably the most expressive and intricate part of the human form. I’m a cartoonist at heart, so the hands I draw are not realistic hands by most definitions. Breaking Down Hand Structure Not really much to it, is there? Relationships of Hand Structure

Vos premiers pas pour dessiner un visage : les cheveux | dessin Temps estimé : 2h Objet du cours : dessiner les cheveux Niveau : débutant Voici une série d’articles sur le visage, je m’attarde sur chacune des parties importantes qui le compose. Nous allons voir comment dessiner les cheveux et cela sous plusieurs angles. Cela demande de la patience, un peu d’observation, de la patience et… de la patience. La prise de note est bienvenue. Si vous avez fait tous les exercices de cette série d’articles sur le visage chez vous, je vous garantie que vous allez vraiment faire des progrès. Vous pouvez commencer dès maintenant : Observer et Recopier les cheveux des photos ci-dessous, ne vous attardez pas trop sur le visageLes coupes cheveux signées Jean Louis David sur Google image c’est sympa, cela dit je vous recommande ce blog ou vous trouverez de la chevelure en veux-tu en voila. Alexa Chung pour le Vogue Coréen juin 2011 Franck Quitely Franck QuitelyVoir d’autres beaux dessins de Franck Quitely Misc.

Portrait drawing: a simple approach Portrait drawing is one of those drawing skills many people get into drawing for. It is so appealing and rewarding being able to draw a portrait of a friend, a lover, a kid in a way that makes them happy and you proud of it. But drawing a portrait that captures the resemblance and the "soul" of a subject it is not an easy task and a skill that for many takes year to master and hone. For this reason I am not going to focus this tutorial on the "capturing the soul" part (at least not for now) and I will instead focus on "getting the proportions right" to at least capture the appearance of your subject (this alone will bring you a long way toward becoming a proficient portrait drawer). In this tutorial I'll examine a method to draw portraits that is suitable for drawing from a picture and from a real person posing for you. I do not want to overwhelm you with details and I'd rather prefer moving rapidly to the drawing, making comments and observations along the way. Lets' get started! Done? 1.

Lackadaisy Expressions Boy, I didn't know what I was getting myself into when I started this. I've had requests for some sort of expressions tutorial dating back a while now, so I figured, "Sure! I can explain expression drawing...and it'll be way better than all those tutorials out there that are nothing but charts of generic expressions. Yeah! Um. Anyway, I found all I could really do was try to explain ways to teach yourself...and then add some pictures. perspective in the world The Light Environment. We start with the light environment as a viewer would experience it naturally. The space around the viewer is filled with a dense, rich scattering of light, coming at him from all directions and distances, reflected from every surface and even scattered by the atmosphere. the light environment The viewer is also alive and continually moving — shifting his gaze, turning his head, leaning to one side or another, stepping forward or backward, walking or sitting or lying down. The Stationary Viewer. the stationary viewer Once we freeze the viewer's location, posture and gaze, we necessarily fix the viewer's visual cone (what we would call the visual field in other contexts). The fixed visual cone is defined by a fixed apex, the viewpoint, and a fixed direction of view (also called the central ray, axis of sight or principal visual ray), which represents foveal ("in focus") vision at the center of the visual field. The Ground Plane. the ground plane Distance Measurement.

Dessiner au jour le jour, le journal de bord de l'atelier "Dessiner le corps" Comment dessiner les reflets de l’âge sur le corps tout en rendant hommage à toute la plénitude de vie qui l’habite? Une démonstration de dessin réalisée avec un simple crayon à mine et de la poudre de graphite. L’approche Pourquoi ne voit-on pas plus souvent d’œuvres représentant le corps marqué par l’âge? Il est indéniable que l’être humain n’aime pas se faire rappeler qu’il est fragile, vulnérable, et encore moins que son apparente manifestation est éphémère. La personne qui prend le crayon est inévitablement invitée à prendre conscience des conditionnements qui limitent son regard et à les dépasser progressivement au travers de la pratique du dessin (Lire à ce sujet l’article Rajeunir le regard qui a été écrit en même temps que celui-ci). Une fois le regard libéré de ses réflexes préférentiels, l’artisan dessinateur dessinera le corps travaillé par les années et la vie avec autant de tendresse et d’amour que s’il s’agissait du corps d’un nouveau-né. La pratique

Créer de l’espace et du temps | Dessiner le corps Nous sommes tous pris, ne fût-ce que périodiquement, par la sensation de ne pas avoir d’espace personnel, d’être pris par les nécessité extérieures, de manquer de temps. C’est peut-être difficile à croire, du moins sans l’avoir sincèrement actualisée, la pratique du dessin est non seulement créatrice d’espace, mais aussi de temps intérieur. En fait le temps, tel que mesuré par l’horloge, nous paraît implacable, sans excuse ni pardon, surtout lorsqu’une échéance semble venir le contracter. Et pourtant, le temps peut sembler s’étirer indéfiniment lors par exemple du retard d’une personne attendue ou lorsqu’on s’ennuie et que l’on tourne en rond. L’espace, tout aussi précisément mesurable et quantifiable, nous apparaît cependant tout aussi élastique, s’avérant toujours trop distant entre nous et la personne aimée, ou trop étroit devant les intrusions du voisin. En fait la clé ne semble pas venir de l’extérieur, mais bien de l’intérieur.

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