Digital Tutors - Capturing the Human Form Through Figure Drawing

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.

1.Introduction and overview

2.Discovering lines of action

3.Capturing the form through gesture drawing

4.Visualizing the figure three dimensionally with wrap around line gestures

5.Visualizing weight and mass through gesture drawing

6.Breaking down the figure into shapes

7.Sketching contour lines over our posed shapes

8.Mapping the shadows

9.Building up the figure with core shadow shading

10.Blocking in mid-tone values and highlights on our figure

11.Blending values and refining the form

12. Continuing to blend and refine the form