Gesture Drawing Principles for Manga
Learn gestural techniques to create drawings that breathe life into the canvas and stand out from the competition.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Course last updated 3/6/15
**New videos added periodically based on feedback through forum discussions**
Early bird price $39 and free critique. Price will increase to $69 at the end of March. Get in and save.
Course Contents:
This course will demystify a complicated
subject that is sadly avoided or misunderstood by many artists at all
levels—gesture drawing. Students will learn basic and advanced
principles of gesture through studying paintings varying from the Great
Masters of the Renaissance to modern day new age artists who specialize
in stylized works.
We will
discuss why learning from the masters is an important studying habit to
apply to your daily routine so you can get better at seeing
compositional cues that will lead your artwork to have a greater appeal.
We will also take what we have learned from studying from the masters
and apply it to anime style artwork.
How I teach this course:
I get your head into the mindset. This course focuses first on seeing picture making
as a whole; breaking apart compositions that lead the viewer's eye from
one area of focus into the next. I call this act of movement 'force',
and I use this idea of force constantly when I'm drawing single or
multiple characters in a gesture drawing. Professional artists in the
industry understand these principles and use these techniques cleverly.
I break down for you all the
tools I use in each section and then give plenty of examples how to
execute the ideas. The course will start out very basic (and quite
foreign to many) and increase in difficulty as you progress.
Student engagement is critical:
I strongly believe that in order to learn a new skill that feedback is
critical. I can't just dump on you my lectures and expect you to
understand my techniques. I welcome my students to treat this as a real,
living course and encourage everyone to take part in discussions and
post their work for critique. Your feedback helps me plan what new videos to add. This
is why I have a course section dedicated to student redlines so that
others can see, learn, and apply the fixes from the teacher. Early bird students get guaranteed free critqiue!
Critiques will be posted to the student critique section so that others can learn what to do and what not to do.
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