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Drawing and Painting the Female Nude

Sketching and Painting the art form called Female nude figure!

Created byShirish Deshpande

Last updated 9/2017

English

What you'll learn

1. Understand why the ability to draw / paint nudes is important in drawing / painting any human figure, nude or clothed.
2. Learn basic body proportions, types, bones and joints
3. Quickly capture the movement and flow of human body and translate it into a sketch
4. Understand the Female face
5. Drawing a female nude study from back
6. Drawing female nude studies from front
7. Painting a complete female nude study using oils / acrylics

Course content

5 sections • 20 lectures • 3h 53m total length

Introduction4:06
Introduction to the course.
Part 1 - Understanding Body proportions and body types2:46
Let's understand the proportions of a typical female body. Then Going beyond clothes and even skin, we will explore how the bones and joints affect the movement of the body.
Part 2 - Capturing the Movement6:00
In this lesson, we will learn to quickly capture the rhythm and movement of human body, which will help us in drawing quick sketches.
Part 3 - Understanding the female face9:13
We will learn how the face is mapped out, how the eyes, nose and lips measure against each other, and how we can eliminate the common mistakes in drawing faces.

Part 5A - Drawing Exercise15:00
In this lesson, we will sketch several female nude studies from front. I will show you how to do this using 2 media, brush pens and pencils. However, you may use any sketching medium to sketch these.
Part 5B - Drawing Exercise15:00
Practice a drawing exercise of the female nude, using any medium—pens, pencils, or charcoal—focusing on strong light from the right and deep left shadows.
Part 5C - Drawing Exercise15:00
Emphasize left breast with dark shadows and indicate nipples with few dark shades. Use a micron pen for final touches or smudge with pencil, keeping shading along the breast contours.
Part 5D - Drawing Exercise15:00
Practice a front view female nude drawing using light pencil outlines with proportional guides from neck to hips, mark the rib cage and breast lines, then finish with soft shading.
Part 5E - Drawing Exercise15:00
Refine the sketch by smudging the pencil work and adding highlights on areas that catch light. Draw a side view including the face, using the same techniques as earlier exercises.
Part 5F - Drawing Exercise13:00
Focus on drawing the upper torso and breasts to overcome intimidation when sketching the face, noting how gravity shapes form and contributes to realism in the figure.
Part 5G - Drawing Exercise12:00
Part 5H - Drawing Exercise13:20
Participate in part 5h drawing exercise to advance your practice in drawing and painting the female nude, building techniques for the next stage of study.

Part 6A - Painting Exercise15:00
We will learn to paint a female nude using oil colors on canvas. You may use oil colors, as I have done, or acrylic colors to get the same effect. I will share tips for both. Painting is a totally different ball game than sketching, and we will explore how it differs from sketching in this lesson.
Part 6B - Painting Exercise15:00
Part 6C - Painting Exercise15:00
Develop value contrast through dark and light painting techniques in the female nude, exaggerating shadows for depth while avoiding pure black and focusing on head and hair details.
Part 6D - Painting Exercise15:00
Define forms by shading from dark to light to establish mid-tones in the painting exercise, using flake weight to mix values cautiously due to potential toxicity.
Part 6E - Painting Exercise7:25
Apply dark-light contrasts for cloth and figure, building form with titanium white highlights and minimal blending, while using crimson, blue, and yellow burnt sienna to push shadows, light, and brushstrokes.

Requirements

You should be Interested in visual art
You should be interested in drawing / painting human figures
You should be able to appreciate the beauty of female form
You should NOT be offended by the depiction of tasteful nudity

Description

Learn to sketch and paint the enticing Female Nude form!

Drawing and painting a human figure has always been a difficult but gratifying challenge for artists of all levels. Nudes have been the subject of interest for ages.

Since centuries, artists have treated human body as a work of art by God Himself. Ancient sculptures and artworks from India to Europe have worshiped the nude form.

Understanding the nude is relevant in today's art as well, even for drawing clothed people!

In this course, we will learn:

1. Basic proportions, body types, bones and joints

2. Capturing the movement

3. Understanding the female face

4. Doing a finished sketch of a female nude - back

5. Doing finished sketches of female nude - front

6. Doing an oil painting of a female nude.

Who this course is for:

Sketchers, painters, all kinds of visual artists, armatures and professionals