Hi everyone, it’s Justine.
Today’s video is special.
We are in Berlin in a studio, where I will show you how to quick-sketch a person, a model.
It’s a useful exercise if you want to learn fashion drawing, how to draw body proportions,
how to draw people, or just to warm up before you draw something else.
It’s good exercise for the wrist.
Typically, we capture the gesture, the silhouette, and then you can go back in later to add clothes,
colors, etc.
Normally, to get a finished, colored fashion illustration you need at least 20 minutes.
You can’t ask a model to keep an exact pose, stiff and standing tall for a full 20 minutes.
So usually the person will keep the pose for one or two minutes, let’s say 90 seconds,
and then you finish the drawing later by yourself.
Speaking of model, two weeks ago, on my Instagram, @justineleconte, here, I asked for a volunteer…
somebody who would like to be my model, for this video, so that I could draw that person.
And one of you replied super fast, was available today, was located in Berlin.
She’s here with me today, her name is Hanna.
She’s a dancer, so she’s very aware of her posture, of her body in general, and that’s
great for what we are doing today.
She’s wearing super-tight clothes so that we see the contours and the body and the movement
without having hair or fabric in the way.
We just discussed different poses, front, side, back, so she will give us different
options.
If you’re watching this, you’re super welcome to grab a pencil and draw along real
time. Let’s go.
This pose is a front pose, so she’s standing, you can see that, on her right leg, on the
left side of the screen, so her foot is frontal, towards the camera.
She’s standing on that foot, which is why the right hip is also the one sticking out,
it’s higher than the other one.
That’s building a so-called S-curve, in fashion drawing.
Then the left leg is relaxed, she’s not standing on it.
The knee is slightly bent, and you can see the left foot nicely from the side.
The fact that she’s holding both elbows up and high and really open builds a very
nice negative space on each side of her torso; that’s a great pose.
She’s standing tall, looking towards the left, her hands resting on the hips on both sides.
Finishing with the breasts, it’s always a bit difficult.
The question is to know which shoulder is in front of the other.
And in this case, it’s not really obvious, because both shoulders are kind of at the
same distance from us.
The chin is in front of the neck.
Voila.
This pose is also a front pose but completely different.
Look, she’s actually standing more on both feet.
But her main foot is her right foot, the one that’s behind.
Which is why, again, the right tip is sticking out.
The left foot has a bit of the weight, but not much, which is why the knee is slightly
bent.
Then, right elbow out, resting on the hip.
And the other arm is just relaxed and leaning next to her.
Here we need to see at which level the legs cross, and it’s exactly at the level of
the knees, in her case.
The feet are almost at the same level.
There’s not really one foot in front of the other.
Here the elbow is slightly pointing towards her back, which is why the forearm should
look a little bit longer.
Relaxed left arm.
Collar bones, my favorite.
Ears.
And she’s looking straight.
Done.
This one is a side pose, which is why you see the chin very well and the long neck.
The bust.
You see a little bit of the back, but you see in the foreground mainly the shoulder.
Then the waistline, see, on any human, the waistline goes forward because the back is arched.
Even if you’re straight, it’s not like she’s putting her bum out or anything…
The back is arched.
All the weight is on her left leg, which is why it’s straight, carrying the whole body.
And behind that leg, the right one is just slightly touching the floor.
She could lift her foot up at any minute to walk the next step, and she wouldn’t fall,
cause the whole weight is on the left leg.
The arm has negative space between the elbow and the back of her bust, which is a nice pose.
And then she could be holding a clutch or a purse or something.
The chin is in front, and you see the nice angle because she’s completely side-side.
A little bit of hand.
The right hand that you see.
And I’m just trying to improve the curves of the legs a little bit.
But in 90 seconds it is tight.
This one is a back pose.
She’s standing completely on the left leg, which is why you see a nice curve, and the
foot is going towards the center vertical line of her body a little bit, it’s a very
nice curve.
You see that her left shoulder is going down, her left hip is going up.
If you draw a line at the shoulder level and another one at the hip level, at some point
those two lines are gonna cross, somewhere on the left of the screen.
This is the so-called S-curve.
Shoulder line, waist line, hip line.
This leg is long and straight.
You see the heel and the shoe completely from the back.
This is how to quickly sketch it so you just remember the pose without having to draw the
whole shoe.
The **right** leg is just standing there, slightly loose.
Her two feet are completely parallel, which is why you get this nice curve of the right
leg, and the arms.
She’s slowly turning towards her left side, which is why you see the left arm more.
It’s exactly at the same level, as close to us as the hips, and the right arm is partly
hidden behind her.
Side pose from the other side.
Here you see the body.
It’s a nice contrast versus the background.
So, chest, bust, the back is arched, the bum goes back.
That’s a good placement of the hips and you see how the legs are gonna separate at
this point.
She’s standing definitely on the left leg, so it’s stretched out, foot seen from
the side.
Here both feet are almost at the same level and she’s just lifting up her right heel to bend the knee.
So the right foot is slightly in front of the other one but not that much.
Elbow out.
The arm is in front of the torso.
Angle of the elbow.
Hand resting on the hip again.
Here you see four fingers, but you don’t see the thumb.
You see slightly the other hand behind her.
This one is the classical fashion pose.
She’s standing on the right leg all the way, hip out.
You get a great S-curve.
The hip is out, out, out, and then, from the hip to the bottom, the leg goes inwards.
Cause if the leg was standing right under the hip, she wouldn’t have any balance.
If the hip is sticking out, it means that the leg has to balance it out the other way.
The foot is seen from the front.
Here you see the crotch.
The right leg has the hip lower, so it should also have the knee slightly lower than on the
other side.
That foot is also seen from the front because she’s slightly twisting the ankle.
Elbow at the level of the waist.
Arm lying next to her.
The other one too, but slightly lower.
Slightly.
The right hip is up so the left hand should be lower.
Yup.
Thumbs up if you enjoyed this little Sunday drawing session.
Thank you also to Skillshare for sponsoring the production of this video, in a studio,
with three cameras and a team.
Skillshare is a website full of tutorials to learn new skills, just like drawing for instance.
It works with a monthly membership fee, for which you get unlimited access to all the
classes.
For you, watching this video today, they are offering two months of membership for free
to 500 of you.
For that, just use this link here when you register online.
It’s first come, first serve.
And since this video was about learning fashion drawing, I picked some Skillshare classes
which I think are great for beginners, and I listed them in the description right below
this video.
For instance, how to draw a face, how to draw with markers, or how to draw digitally.
That one is smart if you’re a beginner, and if you want the option to be able to undo
a pencil stroke.
Enjoy!
Draw something.
And I hope to see you in the next video if you’re subscribed to this channel.
Take care.
Bye bye.