Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
Adding Muscles and Contours
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: Adding Muscles and Contours
Overview
“Now you’ve set up your scene, let’s add muscle and contours to the mannequins so their anatomy is similar to a real person! ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: Adding Muscles and Contours, 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
“Adding Muscles and Contours In this lesson, we'll add muscles and contours to our mannequins so they look a little more believable as people. At the moment, we've got our scene roughed out. We've drawn in our mannequins, whether they're simple or advanced, it doesn't matter. We've got a frame around the edges to help us imagine this is a 3D space. We've also checked that our horizon line crosses the figures at the same place. We'll move on there by lowering the opacity of these mannequins and then adding the contours and more muscle on top, because one of the main things when we check our s...”
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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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