Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing
Arms, legs, hands and feet
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Arms, legs, hands and feet
Overview
“In this lesson we will see the main muscles and uses of arms and legs. How each of their movements and forms are organized and developed.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Arms, legs, hands and feet, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing. Learn how to observe and depict the human figure with exercises to develop your style.
Partial transcription of the video
“Arms, legs, hands and feet In this lesson we will see legs, arms, hands and feet. We will start with the thigh muscles. We saw the complexity of the femur bone in terms of its diagonality and its forward progress, which is a bone that has a little curve, but above all and mainly, It is one of the most covered with muscles. We will analyze it starting from the hip, which gives the initial fit of that bone. Remember that the hip actually had this butterfly figure. We saw the socket of the femur at the beginning of this unit. The thigh muscles are configured more or less this way, now we will ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing
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Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching

Leonardo Gauna
A course by Leonardo Gauna
Leonardo Gauna is an illustrator with more than ten years of experience, who lives in the city of La Plata, Argentina. He has already worked as an illustrator for different media, institutions, agencies, and galleries that have taken him to cities like Tokyo, Toronto, Paris, Belo Horizonte, Prague, and Houston, among many others, presenting artistic and educational projects.
In 2014, TASCHEN included his work in the book Illustration Now 5! He has 12 books published and, in his latest, he compiles some of his work as an illustrator. He currently teaches workshops, courses, and carries out research on virtual reality, the subject of his thesis for his degree in Plastic Arts at the University of La Plata.
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