We will be doing more figure drawing today, using painting.tube. We can try out some of the following techniques for our quicker sketches. Starting with the head first and drawing reference lines for the spine and centre of face. Stick men. Draw the joints and eliptical shapes for the torso, pelvis and head. You can …
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We are continuing with figure drawing this week, but we will look at a couple of additional exercises. Drawing the Negative Space We have previously looked at drawing objects by focusing on the space around them. This can be applied to figure drawing as well. Open Drawing Previously we have focused mainly on drawing figures …
We tend to pay a lot of attention to peoples faces. This can make it harder to draw a face which looks realistic as the viewer picks up on tiny details. Some ‘rule of thumb’ measurements With this approach, we draw general guidelines and use these as a starting point to work from. In practice, …
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We will continue drawing some timed figure poses from Painting.tube It may be useful to remember some of the exercises we have covered previously. You could apply some of these ideas to your timed figure drawing sketches. Quick Drawing Exercises: Drawing with a single line. Drawing without looking at the page. Warm-up Exercises for Drawings: …
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Painting Tube has some Figure Drawing poses . These videos give a series of timed poses, ending in a slightly longer pose. As a follow on from last week, we will be continuing with gesture drawing. Remember that you can create a basic structure in order to help you form the shape and proportions of …
Last week we looked at some tools to help us begin figure drawing at home. This week we will look at figure drawing in more depth and consider how we approach it. Why figure drawing? There is no correct way to approach figure drawing. For the moment we will look at some warm up exercises …
Ugo has composed a song for Space. Do have a look and enjoy hearing Ugo in action again. Ugo is keen that his musical contribution raises some funds for Space. If you are in a position to give you can donate via localgiving or contact us to find out how to donate directly. If you …
This week we are going to look at a few resources available to help us start drawing human figures. 3D Mannequin Software There are numerous solutions software solutions available when it comes to poseable mannequins. They do vary in how fiddly they are to work with and with some being much easier than others. As …
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