Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
Silhouette and Contour Lines
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: Silhouette and Contour Lines
Overview
“You’ll learn how to use the silhouette and contour lines to improve the feeling of form and volume in your work. ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: Silhouette and Contour Lines, 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
“Silhouette and Contour Lines Let's talk about silhouette and contour lines and how to use them to improve the feeling of form in our work. Let's get started. I'll do a little exercise here and ask how many seconds into this drawing do you identify what I'm drawing. Probably about now, I'm guessing that you might be able to identify that this is Mickey Mouse. The main point is that your idea of something and the identification of it comes largely from the proportions and also from the silhouette. You were probably able to tell that this was Mickey Mouse mouse without any details on the insid...”
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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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