Udemy - Gesture Drawing Principles for Manga

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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 critique!

Critiques will be posted to the student critique section so that others can learn what to do and what not to do.