Figure Drawing Master Class: Lessons in Life Drawing

✍ Scribed by Dan Gheno

• Publisher: North Light Books
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 178
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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With tips, tricks and historical references, the drawing instruction inside will help you with all the critical skills you need to travel your own journey through successful figure drawing and improve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

✦ Table of Contents

COVER......Page 1
TITLEPAGE......Page 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 5
INTRODUCTION......Page 8
1 HOW TO SEE FORM......Page 10
2 TRAINING YOUR HAND......Page 24
3 ACTION AND GESTURE......Page 36
4 MAKING BETTER LINES......Page 54
5 A PORTRAIT OF THE HAND......Page 72
6 DYNAMIC HEADS......Page 94
7 PUTTING TOGETHER THE HUMAN FORM......Page 116
8 DRAPERY ON THE HUMAN FORM......Page 138
9 COMPOSING YOUR DRAWINGS......Page 150
10 HOW TO USE NARRATIVE IN YOUR ART......Page 162
CONCLUSION......Page 172
INDEX......Page 173
COPYRIGHT......Page 175
ACKNOLEDGMENTS/DEDIACTION......Page 176