Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

Overview

“While movement and readability lay the foundations, volume creates the illusion that your drawing has three dimensions. This will help to communicate the figure. ”

In this video lesson Alexander Steenhorst addresses the topic: Volume, 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 gonna look at volume. Because if we look at these earlier drawings, it's nice, they capture a feeling of movement, but they're far from communicating a figure. And a figure contains volume, weight, form, and that's exactly what we're gonna be focusing on in this lesson. Now, to stay away from a theoretical approach, we're just gonna use this wooden cube as reference. This already communicates the feeling of volume. If I would have drawn something like this. It would be flat. Now, we wanna be able to rotate a box because we're gonna be using this to draw the different bo...”

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Course summary for: Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

• Level: Beginner
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• 10300 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching