Hey you lot welcome back.
So as I said yesterday, todays video is gonna be a bit of life drawing or figure drawing.
It’s a lot of fun to go out and do this but also conveniently you can find channels
here on youtube and resources all over the internet that offer realtime videos of models
in different poses.
I’ll leave a link below to the channel I used today.
They also offer free video lessons and the accept donations to keep things running so
have a look at that if you can.
Now I forgot to hit record for the first one and I realised my pencil marks were too light
anyway o really show up on camera so I went over them quickly and then started on the
next one.
These are one-minute poses and I thought I’d show a couple in realtime just to give you
an idea of how I personally like to approach the challenge of drawing so quickly.
So my main focus for this one was to capture the gesture, give a sense of movement.
So i started out with the curve of he back and built everything off that.
I don’t really try to make these look realistic, I like more of an exaggerated look, and I
think that makes things a bit easier, giving things sharper angles, and extending the movement
of the pose.
I don’t spend too long in one place, which is hard for me, not adding the details, but
its important to keep in mind the drawing as a whole rather than each individual finger
or wrinkle.
But yeah other than that its just sort of long quick lines and curves and if I see I’m
running out of time I just check that I’ve got as much information down as possible,
hopefully a full body outline at least.
Right with the next one I started out with like the trunk of the body the torso and how
its leading back.
I did kind of stick legs at first just to get the proportions figured out and then it
was a lot easier to flesh them out.
I don’t really worry about were on the page I start a drawing, it doesn’t bother me
if they overlap each other, i actually quite like that and also I don’t care if half
of it ends up off the page.
With this one you could see I hesitated a bit, I didn’t really know where to start
and I thought this is too difficult a pose to get right.
Too complicated.
But my advise is to always at least try.
Especially with these one-minute practices, it’s such a short amount of time, you could
never consider it a waste, and the potential to learn something in that minute is huge.
And in the end this one turned out a lot better than I had expected anyway.
If you find that you are really struggling with doing these kinds of practices, the best
thing you can do is really commit some time to learning about the human body, how things
are made up and how they connect to each other, you don’t realise it but you build up this
little stack of knowledge that your brain goes to here and there for stuff like this
and throws it together into something that makes sense, things that you didn’t really
know you knew about joints and muscles and stuff, your internal memory stores just whip
them out when you need them.
So sometimes I’ll just leave those kinds of drawings as they are but today I thought
it would be fun to ink them as well, add a bit of style to them.
So to finish off this video I’ll show you all that.
Now just before I go I have to say, thanks again for everyones kind comments, I obviously
said yesterday that a lot of these thins were gonna be sketchy and some not so good and
you pretty much all said that your happy with that.
That being said tomorrows video is like the peak of messiness, I’m doing blind-contour
drawing so not looking at the paper while I draw and I can guarantee that it’s not
gonna be visually spectacular but its just something that I love doing so I hope you
guys like watching it.
And if it doesn’t sound like your kind of thing you can obviously skip it and rejoin
us on Monday.
But until the next one enjoy the rest of your day and I’ll see you later, bye!