Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

Overview

“Just like a professional athlete, you will need to warm up your creative muscles and approach the blank page with confidence. Let me show you how it's done. ”

In this video lesson Alexander Steenhorst addresses the topic: Warm-up and Line Confidence, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses. Fill your sketchbook with expressive artwork by learning a variety of drawing techniques to illustrate characters with dynamic poses.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson we're going to do some warm-up exercises and explore the concept of line confidence. Let's turn the page. And we're going to draw a T. Now the most important thing when warming up is not about just warming up, it's also about getting the creative juices flowing like I just said. And that's done by just filling the page with squirrels or whatever this is called. When I was young and opened up my sketchbook, I always felt that every page needed to look nice and needed to have a finished art piece. But a sketchbook is not about making nice art pieces. It's about experimenting an...”

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Course summary for: Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (156)
• 10300 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching