Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

Overview

“After movement comes readability! I will show you how to create a readable drawing so that viewers can understand what you're trying to convey. ”

In this video lesson Alexander Steenhorst addresses the topic: Readability, 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 talk about readability. While building our mannequin, we were really concerned about measuring and making sure that everything was correct. While drawing the movement, we were more concerned about the whole pose. In popular psychology, we make a distinction between the left brain half and the right brain half. The left brain being more concerned with logic, measuring and facts. While the right brain, the creative brain, is more concerned with the feelings, imagination and the rhythm. Now, if we look at this drawing, we can see that the red line is drawn with t...”

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Course summary for: Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (156)
• 10301 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching