Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
What is Form - Thinking in 3D
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: What is Form - Thinking in 3D
Overview
“You’ll look at the concept of form, and how to draw with more volume while keeping things simplified! ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: What is Form - Thinking in 3D, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination. Learn how to translate people and places from your mind into lively scenes on a page.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we talk about what is form and thinking in 3D. We'll talk about drawing with volume and we'll keep things easy for ourselves by simplifying. So now we're going to go into what is form and thinking in 3D. And I'm going to draw out some examples on my paper. The first thing we want to talk about is drawing with flat shapes. When I see drawings like this, my first reaction is that There's no form. What I mean by that is they don't have volume. You know, what are we aiming to get? Well, when we draw, we're thinking really about trying to achieve shapes They look three dimensiona...”
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Course summary for: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
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Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Tom Fox
A course by Tom Fox
Tom Fox is a figure drawing instructor and storyboard artist who has worked in the animation industry for more than ten years. He studied zoology at university but, frustrated by the lack of practical skills involved, decided to take up drawing alongside his studies. He spent the next five years honing his craft through short courses and online resources and has worked for Universal Studios, Aardman Animations, The BBC, and Axis Animation.
As well as working as a professional storyboard artist, Tom focuses on reducing complex subjects like perspective and anatomy into an easy-to-follow process for teaching online.
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