Cómo dibujar conceptos básicos: dibujo de figuras

 his class will include a PowerPoint lecture that describes three basic parts of the human form: bone, muscle, and joints. I will guide learners through a simple skeleton drawing during our lecture. After we have covered why those elements of the body are important to us figure artists, we will move on to honing our observational skills through blind-contour drawings. The rest of class will be spent working on feature sketches or studies. 

 Our PowerPoint lecture for this class will explain what gesture drawing is and break down gesture drawing into five steps in a tutorial-style format. As each step is thoroughly explained, learners may draw along, take notes, or just listen to the instructions given. Once the lecture has concluded, we will move to Line of Action, one of many online tools designed to help artists practice figure and gesture drawing. While screen-sharing the website, we will practice gestures. 

 Class will start with a brief review and question asking period where we will reexamine the five steps of gesture drawing together. After, we will move back to Line of Action to practice gesture drawing. The intervals at which we do gestures and the amount of gestures done will vary from class to class depending on the needs and wishes of the students. However, intervals will not be timed over eight minutes or under two. Students will be encouraged to experiment and have fun with these gestures 

 This lesson combines a brief PowerPoint lecture with even more in-class practice time. This lesson, our lecture will cover a couple of issues students may have encountered and not yet figured out how to solve. I will provide tips on how to tackle foreshortening, maintaining accurate proportion through measuring, and maintaining volume. We will also discuss the three shapes that all figures are made of: spheres, boxes, and cylinders. Artists will learn alternative gesture drawing methods.