Figure Drawing Master Class: Lessons in Life Drawing
$18.58
How to draw like the masters!
With Figure Drawing Master Class, you will discover the secrets to creating masterful figure drawings through examples of Old Master drawings, as well as Dan Gheno’s own beautiful drawings, demonstrations and diagrams.
This take-home course covers everything you need to put yourself on the fast-track to successful figure drawing.
Inside you’ll find:
- The basics of training your hand to draw
- Gesture drawing lessons
- How to draw heads and hands
- How to accurately compose your figures
- Keys to replicating the subtle details in the posture of the head to suggest emotion
- The basics of human proportions
With tips, tricks and historical references, the drawing instruction inside will help you with all the critical skills you need to travel your own journey through successful figure drawing and improve your drawings for years to come.
- Learn to draw all aspects of the human figure with diagrams, demonstrations and Old Master drawings
- More than 120 drawings by Old Master artists including Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Rembrandt
- Includes 5 step-by-step demonstrations to reinforce the key concepts of figure drawing
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E. Ross Bradley –
I am looking at the book as a potential text/reference for my figure drawing classes. At first run through, it seems like a solid approach to tackling the most challenging drawing subject.
Brett A., Turner –
A good worthwhile explanation of techniques of basic life drawing but if you really want to sail the learning to draw by both the Anatomy and the Gestural Figure Drawing that Robeert Beverly hale used as text books when he taught at Colombia. The late prof. is one of the noted Professors that has taught many of todays best Gestural and realism techniques to. You know the Pope was Going to have MicealAngelo killed because he knew a bishop that would allow him to “borrow bodies that he could study. You have to know why and what is underneath that makes that shadow on a woman back on either side of her spine, I love that place. But this cat I think just needed some bucks.
WS –
An excellent book on the figure.
kikeo58 –
In the stilted studio environment with unnatural naked adult poses, this author is a skilled technician. His work is exemplary. However, his statements are vague and extremely dated suggesting poor basic understanding. e.g. “Sweeping lines and turning shadows” Yet, I give the book five stars because it honestly reflects the state of art education today. Most people buy an instruction book for techniques that lead to improvement. This book like dozens of other drawing instruction books suggest that you “draw a lot and somehow you get better because I did.” There really is no instruction on how you should progress just a grab bag of technique variations that the author likes. Still, I like the author’s drawings. A lifetime drawing worked for him.
Miyagawa (Iseshi） –
どの様に形を捉えるか、質の高い線
トルソーの部分を大きな面で識別
影の形を描く、身体の頭頂から
足先まで直方体・Sライン･身体の
中心線から、肩･腰･お尻・膝下・
足の向き、古典画家の作品から
学ぶ、スピードドローイングの価値
身体の重力の線を組み込む、質感の
高い線をマスターする。ネガ･ポジの
関係を使う。自分の構成の表現を
見つける。リズミカルな線の重要性
を知る。ピユアーな線の力、類似性･多様性
を探る。手と身体の比率、手の
心理学的な要素、人物の姿勢･態度を
描写する。理想の身体を描写する。
リアルに描く為にすべき事を成し
遂げる。基礎と成る骨格を認識す
モーブメントと動作を描く。全体を
良く纏める。身体の構築、解剖学的
なアプローチを使う。細部を描く。
ポーズ・アクションを捉える。
古典画家達の豊富な作品が掲載されて
いて、描く上での参考に成る。
Penny_P –
This is a brilliant book and I read it from cover to cover which is saying a lot as I tend to get bored half way through – very informative and very inspirational