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Published: 2016-09-08 15:15:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 5349; Favourites: 238; Downloads: 0
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FULL VIDEO TUTORIAL(8:44 long)
I've had countless people asking me how to get better at drawing people, and the advice I always gave was to do figure drawing. But what I've never done, is properly explain what figure drawing is, and how to start doing it if you've never done it before. Thus, this tutorial
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I've taken to printing out an image and drawing basic shapes over it, then transferring the shapes to paper to get the proper feel for proportion. Would you say this is ok? I mean, is it better to have a proper understanding of geometry before you begin figure study or does that get in the way?
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Sure! 
I think you can go most any route, whatever makes you most comfortable. Art is pretty open-ended like that. It also can depend on what kind of study you're doing. If you want to learn the shapes and geometry of the body, you can start there. If you want to learn gesture and movement, you can focus less on accuracy and more on the line of action. I definitely recommend learning both eventually though, as you need to know the shapes of the body/general anatomy AND gesture to create a strong human figure. (To be fair, gesture isn't /exactly/ a requirement, but it really makes a huge difference in making your pieces feel more lively and interesting, which is why I recommend it.)
I do want to say, that once you jump into doing figure drawing (in these quick studies), then you want to drop everything you learned about anatomy and accuracy, at least at first, as it can be a distraction. I noticed that when I started doing gestures. They were really stiff, lots of lines in an attempt to make things accurate, etc. A good way to avoid that, is starting with a super short time. 1-5 seconds is a good place to start
For some further studies, ProkoTV has some great tutorials on figure/gesture drawing on YouTube
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Well, I think it works for me because, just as you intimated in the graphite portraits video, I have issues transferring proportion as well. So rather than resizing the reference on a printout, I just draw some basic shapes over the reference. At least I think It seems to work for me in that respect than simply trying to eyeball features from scratch...
Anyway, I'll definitely give the 'people' watching a go at some point but I'm a long ways off yet. Will look up ProkoTV as well.
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That's perfect 
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Thanks! I always get stuck drawing new poses, I'm usually too afraid to venture out and try new things.
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Happy to help
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That is a good tutorial thank you very much for the advices
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The tutorial? I've already done it, that's what this post is. Link is in the description
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