7 tools to give WEIGHT to your figures
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
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Very often, when you see a beautiful figure drawing, it’s not the fancy shading techniques or details that make it work, it’s how the artist approached the weight in the figure. In this tutorial, we will go over 7 tools that you can use to achieve a sense of weight in your own drawings. This will help your drawings stand out.
We look at ideas around weight and balance in figure drawing like squash, rigidity, the ground plane and gravity. Once you can start drawing what is happening with the weight rather than copying the contours of the figure, your drawings will start to skyrocket.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:50 Squash
1:56 Shadow
3:21 Perspective
4:10 Balance
5:23 Rigidity
5:55 Lightness
6:54 Gravity
7:39 Resources
8:37 The value of weight - Jak na to + styl
Your humor is so on point. Wish I could give multiple likes.
Yea, I feel like I've been ignoring the ground plane. It does make the figures kind of float. :)
I've been slacking it all my life, I saved this in my playlist because I want to draw better and stick to it.
Thank you for making this video, I watched it a year ago but I didn't pay attention.
Very helpful. You guys have figuratively changed my life!
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial!! You ROCK!!
Thanks Natalie!
loved it. i see your videos whenever i have some free time. And the free library?? oh thank you so much sir.
Thanks Iva!
when you only coment in order to place the algoritm
Thank you for the Love 💪🏽🖌
thankyou Kenzo for another great and useful video!
Great video content Kenzo
I remember a moment from the movie "Frida" with Salma Hayek. Her husband Diego Rivera painted naked figure. He asked her: Frida, something is wrong, can you tell me what? And she went to the canvas. Not enough weight here, Diego. And put a sign in one bold motion under the breast of the figure. Thanks for the video, Kenzo! =)
Oh wow that’s cool. I haven’t seen that movie, got to check it out
Reminds me of some of my past student days!! I have long been a fan of the weightedness of a figure and it is something I have long sought to emphasize!!
Yep! You did it again Kenzo. your tutorial gets my vote of approval. hopefully following your instruction my drawings will soar into the stratosphere and gain a “weighty” approval from you!
Thank you Tessa!!
Excellent post Kenzo, as always. Thank you for the tools!
Loved this about weight. Especially the bits about thinking how things squash and create shadow.
Glad it was useful!
There’s so much useful information in this video, it’s hard to believe it’s only 10 minutes!
That’s even better though, this is definitely a video I’ll come back to whenever I’m feeling like I can’t figure out what’s ‘off’ about my figure drawings (it’s hard to convince myself to go back to longer videos often 😅)
Thank you 💕
At the end of school am going to make a email for art stuff and try those challenge probably I also need to finish that reboot it need a email but am not sure what to use for it. :)
Any way looking forward for it it seem interesting hopefully the challenge are fun I like me some puzzle it more interesting than vaguely trying to learn without knowing what your doing really.
Thanks for these tools, great video!
super cool guy.
I'm fairly certain you are the best teacher I've ever seen. The way you explain and break everything down in clear and definable ways, I think is honestly just miles ahead of all the other people trying to teach art or really anything to me that I've experienced so far in my life. It also definitely helps that I'm actually invested in learning now though lol.
Like with gesture drawing it's my (quite possibly entirely incorrect) impression that the initial learning of gesture drawing is so far behind a lot of the people I try and learn from that when they teach it it's kind of just something like 'do the line of action/spine maybe, do the hips, bam bam bam and we're done, really just feel it out' because it comes pretty easily to them at the advanced point in their career that they're in, whereas you can appreciate that some people have zero real idea of what they're supposed to be doing (or at least aren't able to fully grasp the more vague methods) and can then break it down accordingly into a clear and defined way that makes it so easy to grasp the essentials of what you should be focusing on.
I started from absolute zero a few months ago, and initially was just trying to follow those kinds of more vague methods for gesture drawing, 30 minutes of 30 second, 1, 2, 5, or 10 minute gesture drawings a day, and I definitely made some progress, but after starting to really pay attention to your videos and fresh eyes challenge I feel like I've gained so much more understanding so much more quickly than I had doing all that for a couple months, and I'm more and more starting to actually 'gesture draw' rather than trying to maybe do the spine somehow and then just kind of slipping into doing the contour I saw, maybe with a ribcage or pelvis type shape in there sometimes. Wish I would've started off with LLD but only a few months of flailing around definitely isn't bad at all, and may even have been necessary to 'fully' (know I probably still can't fully-fully appreciate it due to where I am skill/knowledge wise lol) appreciate your content, definitely glad I found LLD so early into trying to learn. The most value/information dense resource I've had the privilege of seeing so far.
So thank you, for being so awesome, and also so entertaining and funny while you're at it. And your whole attitude and approach to art is so great, whenever I watch your videos I'm thinking "this is the guy, this is the real art-man," lol
Forgot my initial reason for writing that while I was doing it, but I just remembered it's because ambient occlusion, something I've heard talked about a decent amount and seen as a setting in games for years, even looked up a couple times to try and get a better idea of what it was, I'd never fully understood what it meant even though I now realize what a simple concept it is. In a couple seconds in a video not even expressly about lighting/shading, the way you explained ambient occlusion took me from "Ambient occlusion? That's something to do with that shadow stuff I guess." to fully understanding what it is/what the term means and is referring to lol. Like I'd had all the pieces to understand it I now see, but your brief explanation was what triggered them into all fitting together, making me go "Oh, how did I not understand this for so long?" lol 😭and that was what made me think, "Yeah, I need to leave a comment about what a great teacher this guy is."
I actually took out a pen and paper and took notes on this video! As a "self-taught artist", your videos and your reference library have been amazing resources on my art journey! The fresh eyes challenge helped me leave an art/skills plateau and I'm sure these tips on giving weight will help me leave the plateau I'm currently in. Thank you for being such an awesome teacher! I can tell you are very thoughtful with each lesson or challenge!!
very helpfull, especially for animation!
I know this is unrelated, but I'm having trouble drawing/painting sheer or see-through fabric. I would appreciate it if you made a video about this topic. Thanks 🙏
Awesome video and very informative! Thanks for sharing
Understanding weight was a game changer for me. Thanks Kenzo!!! Awesome lesson.
Great video. And great sweater.
I really love how you explain things in a simple way ❤
appreciate your time, Kenzo, and your skills. Thank you!
love your videos. I watch them again and again. You explain clearly. So great. Thank you Kenzo.
Hi Kenzo, these tutorials have been invaluable for me to improve my figure drawing. I was teaching myself here in Brisbane Australia last two years during the Covid lockdown. Being self taught I didn’t know what I was doing and I didn’t know how to make them look real. Before CoVid I couldn’t draw a stick figure, now after the Fresh eyes challenge, these extra tutorials and the reference library I now look at my drawings and think that I am really making progress with quite lifelike figures. Even my wife says so! So ThankYou so much. Keep them coming. You are a good teacher.
KENZO, THIS IS SO HELPFUL, AND SOMETHING I WILL DEFINITELY PUT MORE FOCUS ON,
MSG Leum
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Thank you, Kenzo! This is very insightful, I really love your approach to figure drawing, this video about weight is definitely helpful to improve the quality of our drawings!
Very beautiful tutorial!
Right to the point and very nicely delivered! Good job 👍
Very helpful ♥ thank you
Hey mate! Just wondering when your life drawing simplified course will be open again?
Thanks!
thank you very much
Trato de q no se me pase ninguna de estas herramientas (tools) pero lo q si me ha hecho sudar, o como decimos aquí en México: "me hecho 20" (quiere decir q se me hace más difícil) es con el escorzo "foreshortening", con ese sí q es más difícil!!!
Thank You so mucho kenzo, I realize that I improve my drawings a lot with your videos, tutorial and challenges.
Otherwise, something that make me sweat is the foreshortening, omg, that's hard for me, but i'll be practicing a lot with all that photos 😃.
Nuevamente, gracias Kenzo 🙏🙏🙏
Excellent video Kenzo. This is an often overlooked aspect of figure drawing. Very helpful and important
Glad it was helpful!
Love the way you simply explain these things, it will really help my work and studying. You are an great teacher , keep up the good work
Thank you that means a lot!
love your little films, thanks a lot:)
Glad you like them!
Really appreciate all your videos. Have recently found the channel and it is full of super helpful knowledge and encouragement. Currently doing the Fresh Eyes Challenge and finding it is really helping! Thanks again!
Love to hear that thanks Abi!
Super-helpful video - thanks. Love your passion for art 🎨
Thanks David! Hope you've been well
I like all your videos :-)
Thank you Nancy!
Will your videos help me learn how to draw people playing golf, or I am being too simplistic. I am learning figure drawing from them, but leap to golf swing seems huge. Thank you.
Kenny we need more body types tired of the supermodels tbh
We do try to use various body types and i think this video does a good job of that
Deep 🥵