Figure Drawing for Beginners
The stroke and the body
A course by ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez , Illustrator
About the video: The stroke and the body
Overview
“I will start by showing you the materials, then focus on the basic tools, starting with the hand, the way we take the pencil and the difference between writing and drawing; Then we will do drawing exercises for heating lines, lines of different lengths and as the support of the hand, elbow and arm give us different results. ”
In this video lesson ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez addresses the topic: The stroke and the body, which is part of the Domestika online course: Figure Drawing for Beginners. Learn basics techniques to draw the human body with precise proportions and without using a model.
Partial transcription of the video
“THE STROKE AND THE BODY Now that we know the project we'll be working on, in this lesson, we're going to look at materials and then start making lines to gain confidence. Our basic materials are paper, pencils, I have three mechanical pencils, but any pencil will work. I also have a bunch of rulers, circle-drawing rulers, a compass, and different objects to I can use to make circles, which will be helpful later when we make those templates or figures. These are simple materials that everyone has at home, paper and pencil are the basics for these first few lessons. The rest is simply to help...”
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Course summary for: Figure Drawing for Beginners
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Category
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Areas
Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketching

ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez
A course by ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez
Miguel Bustos Gómez, better known as Zursoif, is a Colombian artist, illustrator, and teacher with 15 years' professional experience. He has been teaching at Casatinta since 2012, leading drawing, anatomy, and illustration workshops. He has also worked as an illustrator for different publishers including Rey Naranjo on Gabo: memorias de una vida mágica, 2012; Ediciones Vestigio on El Pornógrafo, 2019; and Editorial Planeta on El difícil oficio de perdonar, 2019.
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