Figuary 2019 (figure drawing month)

Figuary is a month of figure drawing lessons and practice sessions. Take the challenge and transform your life drawings!

Hi and welcome to Figuary! Every day we are going to post a video and an article with guidance about figure drawing and Croquis Cafe

I love the analogy of drawing to story-telling. Lets think of drawing a figure like making a movie about a true story. It needs a

On day 2 we talked about the story of the pose, today we’ll get more specific. Often the core of the story can be found

We talked about the story of the pose and how it’s really useful to observe the curve of the torso centre line or spine and

We’ve talked about looking for just the top 0.1% of the information in the pose and filtering out the rest, looking for the important curves

So we looked at some fairly standard stories in these poses – the curve of the torso centre line, the fold in the torso and

The Day 7 Croquis Cafe session is here. Next post – Day 8

So we are going to be looking at values, or the light and dark in the pose and shading, this week. But before that, I

In the first week, we focused on the story of the pose, the top 0.1% of information in the pose that we wanted to capture.

We looked at how important the big, simple shapes of the shadow and light are to the drawing, but you may be struggling to

We are going to look at ways to tackle shading depending on how much time you have. As always, these are not rules but just

So we have looked at seeing and drawing the shadow shapes, and today we’re going to talk about different ways to fill them with tone

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