
Welcome to the course. I few words of introduction here to encourage you and motivate you to get started. Human body is one of the most difficult things to draw, but also the most rewarding.
Get variaty of pens and pencils. Learn why changing pencils is important.
Learn some simple guidelines on how to measure the proportions of a male, female and a child.
How can you practise so you can draw human proportions without having to measure all the time?
Why you struggle to draw people and how to avoid it.
What is balance, how to decide whether there is balance in the figure you are drawing?
Learn some simple drawing techniques to train to balance your drawings right away.
Simple description of perspective and some easy rule of thumb on how to draw people in perspective when you are outside.
An easy and playful way to measure perspective.
Learn how to find the perspective when you are sitting down.
Learn where are the best places for drawing.
How to choose your models.
How to glance at them without being noticed.
How to deal with the fear of people seeing you drawing.
Learn how to quickly draft the proportions and balance before the model has moved.
A step by step guide of my thinking process with a life example.
How to translate the theory into practise on the blank paper?
Here we will go through the same thinking process but right on the paper.
How using the same method of thinking but drawing with a different pencils can improve our drawing skills.
How to draw a walking person.
How to draw with a soft pencil and what is the advantage of this approach for you as a beginner?
Here is yet another approach of sketching a fast paced people.
What can you use your sketches for? What are they good for?
If you´ve ever wanted to draw people but you find it too hard, you are not alone. We have all been beginners. But sketching is essential for learning to draw the complex matter that the human body is. And that is valid not only for beginners but for everyone who has a career as an illustrator or artist. The saying : "If you don´t use it, you lose it." is very valid even here.
But what is important when you sketch is what you see. Sketching is a way of studying human body in motion, so you need to know what to explore there.
In this course I´m giving you all the information and techniques you need as a beginner to start sketching wisely. This will dramatically improve your drawing skills even if you´ve never drawn people before.
You don´t need to know advanced human anatomy to start.
The techniques I´m giving you here will train your brain to grasp human proportions, balance and weight within few seconds.
Whether you want to become an illustrator, a character designer, an animator, fashion designer, an architect or artist this course will bring your drawing skills to the next level.