Have you ever drawn a human body and thought it looked flat, unrealistic, or lacked depth? This class will guide you through transforming your gesture drawings into 3D forms with familiar shapes so that your drawings never look flat again! Join figurative artist Fei Lu as she guides you through adding structure and dimension -- turning 2D bodies into 3D ones!

By the end of this course, you will know how to:

Find gesture lines in figure drawing
Construct human proportions using gestures and 3D forms
Break down the torso into simple and complex forms
Build bodies using 3D shapes
Make relationships between parts of the body and proportions
Explore value through shadows and highlights

Materials:

Demonstrations are drawn digitally and traditionally, but you may use the medium of your choice! If you're drawing traditionally while tracing the male and female forms, you may benefit from using tracing (or parchment) paper to help you out along the way!

(Exercise: Analyzing forms in the female torso)

[Exercise: Analyzing forms in the male torso]

[Final project: Finding and drawing human forms in a pose underneath bulky clothing]

About the Instructor:

Fei Lu is an award winning visual artist, educator, and founder of Winged Canvas. She has been teaching and practicing life drawing for over 20 years, and coined the GSL (gesture, shape, line) method for figure drawing, helping thousands of students build their confidence and get into the art school of their dreams with this proven teaching methodology.

DJ Forrest

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