Figure Drawing Fundamentals
Gesture
The Bean
Structure
Landmarks
Robo Bean
Mannequinization
Balance
Exaggeration
Proportions
Measuring
Shading
Figure Drawing Demo
Closing Thoughts
The first example of drawing the human figure with a focus on structure.
Newest
Phil
4mo
Did my attempt before watching the video.
aside from stan having way more anatomical detail, I jotted down some major shortcomings of my attempt.
- too much space between my torso and pelvis boxes
- handling of shoulder plane needs work
-legs need to be foreshortened more in this pose!
-could have exaggerated pose a bit more
-should add more detail to head, maybe attempting loomis method
Filippo Galli
6mo
Assignment from yesterday that I unironically didn't have time to post.
I decided to double check if I was right before committing to draw on some parts but most of it was done on my own; pretty sure I followed the contours a little too much.
Emma X
6mo
Tried following along, very difficult! Any feedback is welcome!!
Gannon Beck
7mo
Following along.
Hanna Looye
9mo
Doing the lesson and then adding watercolor and pen.
Jean-Nicolas Bouchard
1yr
you are truly a great drawer @Stan Prokopenko !
Andres Torres
2yr
Tips? Advice?
Eveline Rupenko
2yr
Hi, before taking the assignment I was drawing along with Stan to understand the Method better! here and below the next videos I'll be attaching my copies
Samuel Sanjaya
2yr
My second attempt at mannequinization. I still have some trouble with proportion, especially on the tapering in the leg area. I need some feedback and help on this..
Eugene Constable
2yr
Hey - Im using willow charcoal sticks to draw (on cheap newsprint paper) , I love the softness (and the rub-out your mistakes ability!) but really hard to control. What to people use most to draw with for these exercises? Ta
Chris Martin
2yr
First attempt - feedback welcomed
Douglas Duffy
2yr
second attempt during my follow along session. phew
Andres Torres
2yr
I would recommend doing one per page instead of shoving two or three on a page. By manually limiting how much space you have to draw you’re not really giving yourself the space to fully grasp the concept because drawing bigger is always a good way to learn.
Gian Amir Calibuso
2yr
💀
@prymitywizm
2yr
Its awesome. You clearly understand what you are doing.
I love the way you are attaching an arm to a torso - this is for me the hardest part of mannequinization and I couldnt make it look not-wonky. I am sooo stealing this idea
Isaiah
2yr
Accurate. Good gesture. And very clean lines. Quite inspiring!
Mark Manthorpe
2yr
Another set of Mannequinization studies.
As the studies go along I begin to focus more on the shoulders as I struggle with drawing the shoulders. :)
Allison TerBush
3yr
I totally got lost on the neck/back muscles and between that and the hair helmet my drawing really got muddied… I think I’ll stick to the basics before trying to add muscle volume again. I might also need to sharpen my pencil.
I’ll echo those saying that this is a big leap from the robo bean- I totally agree. Hopefully it’ll get better with some more practice.
@vahn84
3yr
Hi guys! This is my work on the first assignment...i did watch how Stan solved a bunch of thing though. What do you think? Is it good enough to keep exercising on the mannequin?
Sandra Süsser
3yr
mannequin exercise #2
Barbara Lentes
3yr
@soronder
3yr
For me the jump from the "robo bean" to the "mannquinization" is a big one. It would have helped to have additional lessons in between to practice the shapes for the different body parts. It would also have helped if Stan would explain what he is doing during the session. I only started with this chapter. Maybe it works out in the end.
@dwt12345
3yr
I feel like there's a bit of a leap between how he presents mannequization in the lesson (putting together a bunch of simple forms like boxes, cylinders) to the way that he actually does them in these examples, which seems to me like just drawing out a very slightly simplified organic 3d form with extra wrapping lines. I guess it just requires existing strong understanding of prior concepts like gesture and landmarks.
But yeah I'm totally with you- I have basically no clue how to do any of this beyond the torso and the skull haha. I'll probably just do a ton of gesture practice and hope that helps, or maybe look at the anatomy course.
@rigloo
3yr
i feel the same :)
Melissa Gebauer
3yr
My draw-along attempt :)
Tried hard to truly build up the structure from gesture to robobean to mannequin instead of looking at the contour. I think I should've exaggerated the gesture so that the position of her torso was more erect, she appears to be leaning forward a little in comparison to the reference.
Feedback is highly appreciated!
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