Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

Overview

“The concept of simplification is essential for any artist. You will see how this can be applied to visual art in this lesson. ”

In this video lesson Alexander Steenhorst addresses the topic: Simplification, 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 look at simplification. When looking at a post like this, it's very easy to get distracted by the muscles, anatomy, face, details, and whatnot. And let's be honest, This guy has spent a lot of time in the gym. And while it's impressive to draw all this anatomy, A great artist starts with the big idea and works towards the details. instead of the other way around. Now to do that, we need to use the concept of simplification. And I'm going to explain that using this art piece by Edgar Degas. If we look at this artwork, there's a couple of things that we first lo...”

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Course summary for: Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

• Level: Beginner
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• 10450 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching