Figure Drawing for Beginners
Circles
A course by ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez , Illustrator
About the video: Circles
Overview
“We will start drawing circles, first with support tools such as compasses, circle rules, glasses, coins and then start drawing them only by hand as practice. Then we will make divisions of halves and thirds as we did with the lines.”
In this video lesson ZURSOIF Miguel Bustos Gómez addresses the topic: Circles, 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
“CIRCLES Not that we've gotten exhaustive practice drawing lines and dividing them in halves and thirds, let's start drawing circles. Circles are very important in drawing because they give us a measure that is as wide as it is tall. The idea behind drawing circles is that our hands naturally move in a way that allows us to make spheres, but these don't always come out completely circular. We have to practice a lot to be able to create perfect circles and we can do this through repetition. Just like when we draw straight lines, circles have certain rhythms depending on the hand. It depends o...”
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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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