Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
Positioning Your Mannequins
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: Positioning Your Mannequins
Overview
“I’ll set up the scene and talk about the importance of having the horizon line cross your figures at the same place. Then I’ll show you how to draw your mannequins! ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: Positioning Your Mannequins, 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
“Positioning Your Mannequins Now, we'll set up our scene and begin our final project. Let's look at positioning our mannequins. When we're planning out a scene, forget about details completely, there's no need to think about it. We'll start with a little bit of thumbnailing. We'll work really roughly at first and make sure things are super simple. Before we begin, this is a normal Apple pencil that I've put some tape around because it feels a bit nicer. I've also got a little bit of white tack on the end to give it a bit more balance so that it feels more like a pencil and less like piece of...”
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Course summary for: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
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Category
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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