Most of the advice you’ve heard on this has probably either been impossible to implement or just wrong. A lot of figure drawings don’t have the figure balanced, I’ve done millions of drawings like that, and it feels weird for the viewer. So let’s get your figures balanced. The really
It is useful to see the big picture and the various things that we have to learn to be able to draw (and that it isn’t as overwhelming as it sometimes feels!). The above is a video that aims to capture all the skills that matter in drawing in 10
This tutorial is a the first part of the Fresh Eyes 10 day figure drawing challenge. It’s all free, and the exercises are designed to be suitable to all abilities. If you make an account, you can access poses to practise with, plus you can get the 2D models described
Consistent practice of the fundamental principles of art will get you the results you are dreaming of. The above statement is true, but that consistency is not always easy to achieve. I think a lot of us judge ourselves for not being consistent enough with the things we want to
Before throwing my old life drawings away, I took a marker pen and saw if I could fix them quickly. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be! I was so much closer to good figure drawings than I thought I was, and maybe you are too.
In this video we review a series of pencils specifically for life drawing. The pencil you use needs to have a few characteristics to help your practice be successful, but there are various materials that meet those requirements. We tell you which is our current favourite and which to avoid.
This article is the third part of the 3 Levels of Gesture Drawing series. You can see part 1 here and part 2 here. Have you ever heard of people talking about rhythms in the figure drawing? What are they talking about? I have no idea, I think they’re just
This article is the second part of the 3 Levels of Gesture Drawing series. You can see part 1 here and part 3 here. We’re taking gesture from clear as mud to clear as crystal in this series. In part 1, we started with the foundation of gesture drawing, which is
This article is the first part of the 3 Levels of Gesture Drawing series. You can see part 2 here and part 3 here. We want to do beautiful drawings of people. Drawing people comes down to balancing two things – the structural and the gestural. So gesture is a
If you’ve not seen part 1 where we covered the first 7 skills, you can view it HERE. This is part 2 of the roadmap, where we transition towards intermediate level skills. It’s with these skills that your drawings are really going to start to transform, so this is an
We want beautiful artwork and to do that, we want really good skills. The approach I first took to trying to get those skills can be described as ‘all at once’. I wanted results immediately. It didn’t work out as you can imagine. What you need is a series
If you follow the steps below, you will be surprised by what you can do by the end of 2021. That’s a big promise but I think you’ll agree by the end it’s reasonable. We are going to make a monthly plan and I’m going to show you the
Every week or two, I send out useful tips and insights about life drawing. When you sign up, I’ll also send you our guide to the skills of life drawings so you can see where you are and what skills to work on next
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