How to Draw Figures from Imagination - Part 1

This video is created for the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course students https://lifedrawing.academy/correspon.... Together with full instructions, they will also get scanned diagrams of body proportions and ribcage templates that can be used to sculpt a model at home. How to draw realistic figures is an exciting topic. There are many things you need to know to make good sketches. Above all, you need to be familiar with human body construction, its proportions and anatomy. Here are some of my sketches. I've done these drawings from imagination. When you have the needed know-how, sketching a figure from any point of view in any pose is relatively easy. All you need to do is to follow simple steps of figure drawing. What those steps are and how to develop good figure drawing skills will be explained in this lesson. Because figurative drawing is a huge topic, I will make several videos to cover all details one by one. In this video, we will talk about the biggest volume of a human body - its ribcage. You may notice in these sketches that I actually depicted the complete outline of a ribcage as if using x-rays. This is done on purpose to show you the thinking process of figure drawing. In different poses, the point of view on a ribcage is different. So, to be a good figure artist, you need to know how to draw a ribcage at various angles. This is what you will learn in this video part. There is a reason why I sketch in pen and ink. Because ink is not erasable, fixing mistakes is very difficult. This forces an artist to pay more attention to every line, making sure it is accurate and precise. So, in this lesson, we will sketch in pen and ink.
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