1 HOUR 34 MINUTES
Francis Vallejo shows you how to get incredible results in your figure drawings with exciting advanced gesture drawing techniques.
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Meet Your Instructor
Ringling College graduate, Francis Vallejo, is an artist and illustrator with over 10 years’ experience. He’s an assistant professor at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and recently completed a picture book on Harlem Jazz published by Candlewick Press. His video courses help explain fundamental and advanced art skills in a fun, easy-to-follow style, and are packed with useful resources and study guides.
6 VIDEO LESSONS
Take your figure drawings to the next level with a wide range of advanced gesture drawing techniques demonstrated by a professional artist.
Watch This Course and Learn:
- How the world’s best artists have used these same gesture drawing techniques in their own work
- Fast shading techniques to help you create figures with form
- How to draw expressive hands and other parts of the body
- How to get the best results from your pencils and pastels and capture poses effortlessly
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Course Lesson Plan
(click the modules below for full details on each one)
Be inspired by looking at gesture drawings by some of the world’s greatest artists, and see how they achieved such incredible results in their work.
Learning how to add tone and shading to your gesture drawings will help create a much better sense of form. Discover how to shade areas quickly, and practice making making bold, expressive marks to bring your figure drawings to life!
Follow along with this 10 minute drawing demo and then try it out for yourself! Learn how to capture the movement of the human body with just a few lines, and how to end up with a great finished result in no time at all 🙂
Follow along with this drawing demo and then create your own gesture drawing from life. You’ll also learn how to apply these same techniques to specific parts of the body, such as hands and feet – they’ll all help you get much better results in your figure drawings!
If you want to create a fast, dynamic figure drawing, then why not try using Nu-pastel hard pastels? This lesson will teach you how to hold your pastels to get the best results, and add bold areas of highlight and shadow for dynamic drawings!
