Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing
Enrich our figure
A course by Leonardo Gauna , Illustrator
About the video: Enrich our figure
Overview
“Here we will learn to work lines with greater detail and richness, negative background spaces, editable and correctable compositional lines. We will see how to establish a strategy to bring what we observe to the sheet in an understandable and organized way.”
In this video lesson Leonardo Gauna addresses the topic: Enrich our figure, 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
“Enrich our figure In this lesson we will see the sketch we made in the previous lesson and we will adjust those margins, adjust those geometric shapes, those long lines. We started by accommodating this shoulder, which was a bit confusing and with too open lines, too many possibilities. We continue to work with the HB pencil from the beginning. We try to work in a clear and relaxed way, not work with pressure, nervously, also avoid doing this. At this time of the sketch it is already important that they can achieve the use of a slightly more fluid, longer, more organic line. So let's fine-t...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Artistic Figure Drawing
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Category
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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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