7 tools to give WEIGHT to your figures

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Very often, when you see a beautiful figure drawing, it’s not the fancy shading techniques or details that make it work, it’s how the artist approached the weight in the figure. In this tutorial, we will go over 7 tools that you can use to achieve a sense of weight in your own drawings. This will help your drawings stand out.

We look at ideas around weight and balance in figure drawing like squash, rigidity, the ground plane and gravity. Once you can start drawing what is happening with the weight rather than copying the contours of the figure, your drawings will start to skyrocket.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:50 Squash
1:56 Shadow
3:21 Perspective
4:10 Balance
5:23 Rigidity
5:55 Lightness
6:54 Gravity
7:39 Resources
8:37 The value of weight