Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

Overview

“How does the human anatomy affect the figure? To start with, I will show you how to divide the body into soft and hard parts, before explaining how to depict these differences. ”

In this video lesson Alexander Steenhorst addresses the topic: Adding Anatomy, 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 take a closer look at anatomy. Before we jump into anatomy, I could make a whole course about anatomy and that's not what I'm going to do. Take a closer look at the additional resources where you can find a book like this by Tom Fox that explains everything you need to know about anatomy. For this final project, we need to look at specifically the anatomy of our reference photo. When looking at anatomy, there are two things we need to be aware of. Hard body parts and soft body parts. These things can be used to add some dynamic feeling to your final drawing. F...”

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Course summary for: Drawing the Human Figure & Expressive Poses

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (153)
• 10207 students
• 4 units
• 16 lessons (2h 21m)
• 1 download

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Sketchbook, Sketching