Using Gesture to Start a Figure Drawing - Figure Drawing Fundamentals
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In this excerpt from the online program, Brian demonstrates starting a figure drawing with fluid gesture lines.
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Maybe it’s just me but I would find this much more useful if we could see the model he’s drawing. It’s difficult to follow his plan without seeing what the pose is and where it’s going.
I guess if we could see the model then CZcams would ban this video xD
a picture with the private parts blacked out would be awesome, but in my experience you would also need to get the model's permission and it might cost extra depending on the model. besides, you could take this as an example of how to do things then you could go to a place like croquis cafe to get the nude models experience and try to implement his techniques from here to there
not using model
@@DK-th5nt There are videos of real life drawing classes. But that still can't do justice to the skill of sitting in front of a 3D subject and translating into 2d on the page. I copied photos all through high school. Once I got to art college, all drawing was from life or still life.
I wish I can sign up for online classes but I am so thankful for this clip! My greatest weakness is going soft on my lines and I hope to work on that. Thank you for all your help and hope you keep making great works! ❤️
I expected something different with the title of this video, I thought you'd begin drawing gesture and from there build up the figure if that makes sense. Still a great video, it was really interesting watching your process and it made me feel a lot more comfortable with my own although it's really different from yours.
From the title, I expected a light, loose gesture sketch establishing the weight distribution of the figure and the composition of the page. As soon as he started hardening the jawline he confirmed my suspicion that his lovely drawings are those of a skilled comic book illustrator who relies on anatomy and archetypal bodies to quickly build credible poses. Amateurs who are convinced that this is the how-to of figure drawing are as mistaken as piano beginners who believe they'll be able to play jazz by watching videos about theory. I made a living drawing people for fifty years. At school we learned to SEE by drawing all sorts of oddly shaped models in difficult poses. I admire skilled comic artists, but the drawings are a particular genre and only those who have a solid training in traditional life drawing can use what are essentially short cuts.
Can't wait for this course to be posted on your site! Will sign up for sure.
Interesting method , using academic drawing and Railey rhythms.
I like more vilppu conceptual approach but I will give this a shot.
i took vilppus class, he is always like : "we're not drawing contours"
*continues to draw perfect contour in gesture*
@@doaflamingo3713 How DARE you!
i wish i could afford these classes, but im thankful for the youtube clips
Super demo thank you. More clips would be great! 🇨🇦👍🏻
This was really insightful. Thank you for this!
Please, be nice with the price :)
I feel fortunate....
Please make playlists
Really liked it
very nice
Fantastic video! You deserve more subs
Hello: Your artistic genius and your teaching is appreciated. Would it be possible to download the sketches that you are demonstrating in this video. Thank you,
Take a screenshot of it
Excelente. Todos los
Dibujos.
perfect drawing....
May I ask why artists hold their pencil like that? Genuinely curious.
I think it gives them more freedom of movement
Its more eazy to control the stroke and you can choose if you want to make a thick stroke or a thin one
You should give it a try.
It allows you to lay clean tones more easily, it allows you to change from a soft to a hard line in a moment notice and, most importantly, is a way of using the pencil as a tool for learning the basis of painting. If you learn your drawing this way, theoretically, you transition to painting will be smoother.
Hope it helps.
@@marcosvinicius-jk5bn Thanks!
@@scottfitzgerald5352 Thank you.
HOLA CORDIAL SALUDOS Y BENDICIONES DEL ETERNO
MUY BUEN METODO DE ENSEÑANZA
SE NECESITA MAS VIDEOS PARA PRACTICAR.
GRACIAS DIOS LO BENDIGA.
Inspiring!
how do we continue from that? pls does anybody know the next video for this (or any vid similar)?
amazing video
friend
Perfeito!
Y el modelo? Donde está?
Where can I find references which u are using…?
great
Ain't that proportion?
is there a good book on the Reilly method?
Mastering the Craft of Painting
also The Student's Guide to Painting
I miss your videos
That’s the Riley method i think I need to buy his books to learn properly I’m gonna study the loomis and Bridgeman books to
Why is the reference not included into the frame, somewhere on the side? Seems like a glaring omission.
He's using an illustration method based on anatomy to create an archetypal figure from his imagination. No reference is needed, but years of drawing quick sketches from life are a prerequisite to use this method.
MUY BIEN
Why does everyone's drawing looks similar in watts atelier ?But i love the way u guys paint it's fantastic.i would really like to see u guys drawing normal people with normal bodies too instead of fitness models and gymnast (i have nothing against them).I would love to see some different work from u guys.U guys are fantastic.keep up the great work.
The problem is there's way to many approaches and techniques for drawing the human form, everything becomes convoluted and complex which is why a lot of artists say fuck it and give up, this guys style happens to be parallel with how I like to draw, do woodworking, building etc,.. you just have to find an instructor that matches your learning style.
Indeed
You call this a gesture drawing. Wow
Yeah, it's not.
That is not gesture drawing !!!!!!
ikr im about to say the same thing lol
Gesture drawing means different things to different people for different purposes. There isn't one way to make a gesture drawing but this is a gesture drawing.
It's a pencil linear. A gesture takes about a minute and establishes the composition of the rectangle and the figure's general weight distribution.
show the damn model
There's no model. He's a highly skilled comic illustrator. People who believe they can learn to draw like him by beginning this way are mistaken.
@@lshwadchuck5643 yeah thanks I'm trying to self teach and while I really like this knowledge maybe it's early for me to follow this until I've done more rudimentary studies... still at the lol "drawing board" I suppose, it's hard to discern the training appropriate to my understanding sometimes
@@justingoldstein1577 I went to old-fashioned art college and drew people for a living for 40 years. I suggest you get the books Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and The Natural Way To Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study Paperback by Kimon Nicolaides. If there's a life drawing class in your area, or an artists co-op group that hires models, that would be ideal.
@@lshwadchuck5643 thank you so much... practical advice can be hard to find
@@justingoldstein1577 You're welcome. You'll hear about those books everywhere. They are the absolute classics and they give you practices. Drawing isn't about tips and tricks, it's about really learning to SEE, about how to focus your mind and loosen your body.
Beautiful but I do not agree with making 7-11 light strokes before landing each final line - Jeff does it also - it is a Parkinsons approach! Master musicians do not play every note soft first - and actors on stage do not whisper first - so why should we do like in this video ...
I would equate a light layin more to preparing sheet music before a performance, or writing a script before a play.
It's also not entirely fair in my opinion to directly compare drawing to acting or playing music. they're all different languages. the point of russian, chinese and english are to communicate, but the alphabet and structure of each language is very different. an exercise for learning english grammar might be worthless in chinese, or vice versa
Everybody's a critic.
if you want to know why WATCH KIMJUNG GI you go through this phase first like playing scales learning rhythm and hormony learning to read music learning to compose. Then being able to intuitivly pull shit out of your ass. visual art is 100x more complicated
@@IVPixel Autism? - taking it to a personal level and attacking like this is not the way to go - but I guess it is part of the 2019 culture for some people...
Boy it's almost like drawing is different from those two things. Nice false equivalency or whatever it's called. If working professionals do it, I'm sure it's absolutely fucking fine to do. Especially since I get the feeling these fellas' drawings are light-years ahead of yours.
...first, this is not "gesture"... second, the approach is not consistent in dealing with torso versus limbs...third, the skill is mediocre...
This kinda training is soul-destroying. Serious artists STAY AWAY
For serious artists, this is the ONLY way.
@@Thleta wrong
@Harris Witherden Youre the one with an empty artstation page lol
Why? Just curious
@@derektrudelle4182 Unless you're Bacon, nobody needs to see John Smith's student-grade figures in 2019. Enjoy being forgotten on the bottom shelf of a random Marshalls
Slow and disgusting. The result is terrible. Dislike!
what? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I like some attitude.
It's quite skilled for comic book illustration. It's not a gesture drawing. I wonder if anyone online has put a camera behind an artist while she does 30 second drawings of a model who keeps changing poses. And we see the model. That would be gesture drawing!
very good