Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
How to Draw a Simple Box Mannequin
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: How to Draw a Simple Box Mannequin
Overview
“Now that you have an understanding of the 3 dimensions of the drawing, you’ll learn how to draw a simple box mannequin using simple forms that I showed you in the previous lesson. ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: How to Draw a Simple Box Mannequin, 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
“How to Draw a Simple Box Mannequin In this lesson, we'll learn how to draw a simple box mannequin. Let's get started To review quickly, now we're thinking of all our objects that we draw as having three dimensions, being in a 3D space and having an X, Y and Z. How can we use that to draw people? We'll first cover what not to do as that's a great place to start because then you know what to avoid and identify what you want. I'll start out by drawing an example of some figure drawing the way most people learn and highlight some of the problems with that. For starters, people tend to take it t...”
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Course summary for: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
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Category
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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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