The first time I drew Spider-Man I was like "hey my art looks good this time!" Tried drawing Batman the next day and couldn't figure out why my results were so different.
I've watched a lot of great drawing tutorial content. You, by far are the creator whose concepts clcks immediately. You truly start from square one and communicate ideas in simple digestible pieces that build confidence, increase understanding, and improve overall acumen. Thank you so much for providing this instruction and inspiration.
Thanks Cherry. Glad you were able to bear with me at the beginning with my complex explanation to eventually understand it. Really hope it is useful to you going forward! Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Cross contour lines will definitely be useful. I had trouble getting a 3 dimensional shape at first since I used the line method but once I started to use Lines that contour to the shape of the object it made it easier to see. The rubber band on the glass though will definitely help and the Laser beam eyes will be a name that will be stuck in my head. Great video Kenzo and hope you are doing well!
Hey really enjoyed the video. It made a lot of sense cause it seems to combine perspective principals to contour lines. Thanks I learned a few good tips from this!
"Tornado" gestures are pretty useful for understanding the 3D volumes of the form: you draw the whole figure with simple ellipses thinking of the angles according to your line of sight and position. Refer to Ron Lemen's video types of quick sketches, part 1, for some demos of this kind of gesture. Truly helpful 😃
It's a bit of a complex topic, I know, I tried to simplify it as much as possible! Really pleased you were able to understand it (eventually :))! Thanks so much for watching
Now I get it …. Again. (Posted a year ago…..hee hee). I always used the nail bed to figure out the direction of the digit…now I know why! Also very helpful explanation of using 90 degree angle for the direction of the line.
using the glass and rubber bands was really helpful. i could do that at home and turn it all sorts of angles and really see the difference it made to the cross contour.
I was first introduced to wrapping lines from Michael Hampton's figure drawing book "Design&Invention" and some of his you tube videos. It definitely helped with the sense of volume. My "mistake", I got it just from the video, that I was not drawing it just according to form's volume, but a little bit bigger than the real form. I think I need to try these lines to be just as wrapping ones. Thanks for a good video, as always!
one thing I have just noticed and understood from another ur cool video with Simon Luty "Train Your Brain: Powerful Gesture Drawing Exercise", that u do not need many wrapping lines, just enough two, in the beginning, and at the end (at joints) to give volume and structure to figure. When u have it too many, as actually, I do, it becomes really overwhelmed and messier. Also need to bear in mind the right direction and a little bit of perspective as well.
Just watched the video and it's very cool. The only bit I don't get is the laser beam analogy. Is it just your "viewpoint/camera?" Or is there more to it than that. Thanks a lot, man 🥰🥰
Sir I have a question regarding the workshop... I'm absolute beginner in figure drawing I know little much and practiced too but not too much I've done ur body line drawing exercises so can I join this ?💙💙🙌 love from India😍
Hey Avik - sure i think you'll enjoy it. have you tried our beginner series here on youtube? that's a good place to start, then maybe figuary 2019. it's all free and on our channel
It's sort of easy to understand when looking at a vertical object, but what if the cup was horizontal? Isn't it much harder to imagine the angle in your head if you are perpendicular to the minor axis of the object?
I guess I was just overthinking it, it seems to work the exact same way, it just takes consistency and familiarity with contours, so practising with a vertical object first would be where to start.. So overall this method is a great way to deepen the understanding of contour lines, thanks for sharing man!
so if i got this right, the laser beam works kinda like the horizon line .if the contour lines are below they are converging up and those that are above the other way around
Nea Caisa yeah but that’s only because objects parallel to ground plane are perpendicular to your eyes at the horizon line. So the horizon line thing works because of the laser beam. But things that are not parallel to ground plane it won’t work like that any more, but laser beam works however the form is oriented
I got a little confused about the "small angle" vs "big angle" when you were using your laser beam focus on the glass. Were we talking about the angle of the plane relative to the laser beam shooting from your eyes?
he was talking about the angle created from your imaginary laser beam hitting the minor axis running through the center of the object and essentially splitting it in two, with one half having a sharper angle than the other (for example). I was extremely confused at first and had no idea what he was looking at.
How do i learn the "feel"? I tried on simple circles but my oval curves seem so off on both sides in relation to each other that the end result does make no sense visually. It seems like they need to be mirrors to each other but that doesn't always work. The sides are bit deformed because one is further away from the viewer, or at an viewpoint angle as you show. I didn't get how laser beam would help with that and how it's different from just drawing what you see on the glass. How do i do it without a glass? It's still "feeling" , isn't it? What would help me is knowing a rule in which relation the curvature works, when is the curve on the back side larger than the front and vice versa.
I feel like with the laser beam you were actually trying to describe perspective but in the context of cross contours. Very confusing I think I only understood it because I am already familiar with cross contours and perspective.
David King hey thanks for the feedback! Cross contours are definitely part of the broader topic of perspective. If you can refer me to explanations of how cross contours curve from the observers point of view, please let me know, because the only explanations I could find were about objects above and below the horizon line which is relevant only when the objects are parallel or perpendicular to the ground plane (eg lamppost example in my eye level video). When things are at other tilts and angles, you need to think about the angle of the form to your eyes which is what the laser beam is about
To silence my left brain, must visit “the analytical” before my right brain can react intuitively. Which video did you do cylinders and boxes, Kenzo? Never mind! I think I’ve found it!
Love Life Drawing Like a curvy "T" shape, I can't really grasp the concept yet, everytime he draws, he puts some curvy line to show the volume within his figure drawing, I don't know how, somehow he always put it in the correct spot.
I think the curvy T shape described by Vilppu is show overlaps in the form to show depth, but contour lines are helpful to imagine the form in perspective, whether there is any overlapping or not.
Helpful: I thought your idea of keeping the contour line at a right angle (in your mind) and then drawing a laser line to the contour helpful in determining whether to draw the contour curve concave or convex. Confusing: 6:13 "the cross-contour line curves are curving back towards the smaller angle." -What? What is the smaller angle? It curves back to the sides of the glass, but what else do you mean? 6:49 "How big should the cross-contour line shape be?" -You said the angle "is not that much smaller" for the shallower cross-contour shape. When you point the glass away, you said "this is quite a small angle now. So the cross-contour line shape from my point of view, is big." -I don't get your explanation. The laser line from your eyes and the contour line when the glass is level makes a certain angle. When you tilt the glass away from you and we are not changing the angle of the laser line from our eyes, then we're making that new angle bigger, right? It's not smaller, like you said. So a smaller angle gives a shallower cross-contour line and bigger one gives a rounder one.
yeah good questions! imagine your laserbeam hitting the form. when your eyes are perpendicular to the form, it's 90 degrees on each side of your laserbeam. here you see the cross contour as a straight line. when the form is not perpendicular to your eyes, there's two different angles, e.g. 120 above and 60 below. from your point of view, when you draw it, the direction of the curve is going towards the side with the smaller angle.
if the angles are 80 on one side and 100 on the other, the cross contour curve will be shallow. the ellipse you draw will be narrow and thin. if the angles are 10 and 170, the ellipse you draw will be wide and big, almost like a circle.
x1101126 no sorry that’s not right. I’ve made a whole video about eye level too. The eye level as it relates to cross contours would apply for objects parallel or perpendicular to ground plane, but that’s because the laser beam happens to be perpendicular to the form there. That’s why you can have cross contours curving both ways above or below horizon line. That’s why it’s all about laser beam and that’s why I made this video
That's why spiderman is such a good reference XD
Adri Afro hehehe never thought of that
The first time I drew Spider-Man I was like "hey my art looks good this time!" Tried drawing Batman the next day and couldn't figure out why my results were so different.
exactly.
Lol
For me the thing that drives me to become a better artist is so that I can give form to these cool characters that I used to fantasize about.
I've watched a lot of great drawing tutorial content. You, by far are the creator whose concepts clcks immediately. You truly start from square one and communicate ideas in simple digestible pieces that build confidence, increase understanding, and improve overall acumen. Thank you so much for providing this instruction and inspiration.
Thank you that is very kind of you :)
Confused at the beginning but understood after your wonderful explanation.
Thanks Cherry. Glad you were able to bear with me at the beginning with my complex explanation to eventually understand it. Really hope it is useful to you going forward! Thanks for watching and commenting :)
Thank you for explaining so emphatically ❤
Cross contour lines will definitely be useful. I had trouble getting a 3 dimensional shape at first since I used the line method but once I started to use Lines that contour to the shape of the object it made it easier to see. The rubber band on the glass though will definitely help and the Laser beam eyes will be a name that will be stuck in my head. Great video Kenzo and hope you are doing well!
Food EXP that’s awesome I’m glad it made sense!
Really great examples and practical advice for drawing strategy. Thank you, that's very valuable.
Keegan Webb thanks Keegan!
Laser beam, and looking at the band over the clear glass was very helpful!
The laser beam methods is pretty funny at first, but its actually very helpful when I get the grasp of it. Thanks!!
You explained the contour line concept very clearly. Thanks a lot!
Great, thanks Hector. Glad it was useful!
Kenzo, you’re awesome. Thank you. Appreciate you and your talent and sharing your knowledge with us.
I appreciate that Kerry!
Hey really enjoyed the video. It made a lot of sense cause it seems to combine perspective principals to contour lines. Thanks I learned a few good tips from this!
James Grim thanks James!
"Tornado" gestures are pretty useful for understanding the 3D volumes of the form: you draw the whole figure with simple ellipses thinking of the angles according to your line of sight and position. Refer to Ron Lemen's video types of quick sketches, part 1, for some demos of this kind of gesture. Truly helpful 😃
cool thanks - I like the sound of tornado gestures!
@@lovelifedrawing a friend saw a few and says they're like mummies lol. Still does the job!
Hi, Kenzo. I had to view this vid a couple of times but I think I understand the concept now. Thank you for teaching us to improve our drawing skills.
It's a bit of a complex topic, I know, I tried to simplify it as much as possible! Really pleased you were able to understand it (eventually :))! Thanks so much for watching
Interesting concept, for volumes is sure useful.
I understood it after watching the video for the second time and now I feel really smart
At first I was confused, but it made sense as the video went on. Having the rubber bands around the glass made so much sense.👍
Perfect! Makes so much sense, am loving the maths!
Great Kim, pleased to hear the maths appeals to you too! hehe
Makes sense. Very helpful. I like the soft music, too.
A helpful video, thanks Kenzo.
Great video as always!
Thanks for your great style of teaching ❤❤
Now I get it …. Again. (Posted a year ago…..hee hee). I always used the nail bed to figure out the direction of the digit…now I know why! Also very helpful explanation of using 90 degree angle for the direction of the line.
That was a good explanation. Thank you.
So pleased you found it helpful! Thanks for watching!
Helpful! I was doing this somewhat yet now understand how to apply this principle with confidence!
Great to hear Virginia, hope you find it useful in your future drawings :)
Thank you for making it easy to understand
Very, very helpful!
Thanks so much!
using the glass and rubber bands was really helpful. i could do that at home and turn it all sorts of angles and really see the difference it made to the cross contour.
yeah! the only tricky thing is the glass distorts it a little bit!
Thank you Kenzo, this is very helpful! Sylvie
Thanks again Sylvie, always good to hear you found it helpful! :)
Wonderful video!✨
Thank you!
Thanks for the effect man!!
No problem, thanks for watching Vasu!
very helpful. especially the laser beam stuff
Thanks Remo. I love laser beams!! haha. Thanks for watching
Very helpful, thanks !
So pleased it was helpful, thanks!
I was first introduced to wrapping lines from Michael Hampton's figure drawing book "Design&Invention" and some of his you tube videos. It definitely helped with the sense of volume. My "mistake", I got it just from the video, that I was not drawing it just according to form's volume, but a little bit bigger than the real form. I think I need to try these lines to be just as wrapping ones. Thanks for a good video, as always!
one thing I have just noticed and understood from another ur cool video with Simon Luty "Train Your Brain: Powerful Gesture Drawing Exercise", that u do not need many wrapping lines, just enough two, in the beginning, and at the end (at joints) to give volume and structure to figure. When u have it too many, as actually, I do, it becomes really overwhelmed and messier. Also need to bear in mind the right direction and a little bit of perspective as well.
yeah you're right, he's really minimalist with them but the ones he uses are very effective
your video's are so helpful, thanks!
Glad you like them!
This video was soooo useful. Thank u!
I love this guy!!!!
Ello from the Philippines!
Ello :)
Thanks
Omg, this just gave sense to everything!!
I was more confused when i watched the video for the first time. I'm starting to get it now
Very clear,thanks
Has this guy ever considered the engravers of 16th through 19th centuries? They knew all about this stuff.
Thanks so much for ur video
You're welcome, and thanks!
Great video superman ! laser beams. Good idea.
hehe yeah you have to be superman to make sense of figure drawing
It was very informative. Thank you........
thanks Ron glad you liked it and hope you've been well :)
Just watched the video and it's very cool. The only bit I don't get is the laser beam analogy. Is it just your "viewpoint/camera?" Or is there more to it than that. Thanks a lot, man 🥰🥰
Just watched again. Understand it 100% now. Still don't get why you need to turn your eyes into a
"laser beam'" but I'm sure there is a reason :)
Soo useful for me/ Thank you for video
Makes sense. Thanks
Great vid!
Great,thank you
Sir I have a question regarding the workshop... I'm absolute beginner in figure drawing I know little much and practiced too but not too much I've done ur body line drawing exercises so can I join this ?💙💙🙌 love from India😍
Hey Avik - sure i think you'll enjoy it. have you tried our beginner series here on youtube? that's a good place to start, then maybe figuary 2019. it's all free and on our channel
@@lovelifedrawing yes sir thanks for replying I've learned a lot from that beginner series like the pelvis and ribcage things and much more💙💙😍
It's sort of easy to understand when looking at a vertical object, but what if the cup was horizontal? Isn't it much harder to imagine the angle in your head if you are perpendicular to the minor axis of the object?
I guess I was just overthinking it, it seems to work the exact same way, it just takes consistency and familiarity with contours, so practising with a vertical object first would be where to start.. So overall this method is a great way to deepen the understanding of contour lines, thanks for sharing man!
so if i got this right, the laser beam works kinda like the horizon line .if the contour lines are below they are converging up and those that are above the other way around
Nea Caisa yeah but that’s only because objects parallel to ground plane are perpendicular to your eyes at the horizon line. So the horizon line thing works because of the laser beam. But things that are not parallel to ground plane it won’t work like that any more, but laser beam works however the form is oriented
I love your walls
I got a little confused about the "small angle" vs "big angle" when you were using your laser beam focus on the glass. Were we talking about the angle of the plane relative to the laser beam shooting from your eyes?
i got confused here too
he was talking about the angle created from your imaginary laser beam hitting the minor axis running through the center of the object and essentially splitting it in two, with one half having a sharper angle than the other (for example). I was extremely confused at first and had no idea what he was looking at.
How do i learn the "feel"? I tried on simple circles but my oval curves seem so off on both sides in relation to each other that the end result does make no sense visually. It seems like they need to be mirrors to each other but that doesn't always work. The sides are bit deformed because one is further away from the viewer, or at an viewpoint angle as you show. I didn't get how laser beam would help with that and how it's different from just drawing what you see on the glass. How do i do it without a glass? It's still "feeling" , isn't it?
What would help me is knowing a rule in which relation the curvature works, when is the curve on the back side larger than the front and vice versa.
Hi thank you so much for your videos. I'm not sure I understood honestly. I think an illustration in drawing would have been perfect
Do episode about how to draw hair please
we did a few Omar - check our channel! they are good ones with Frank Gambino.
Came for the cross contours, stayed for the 3 minutes of kenzo flexing conclusion
So for the laser eye method, I guess you need to choose the angle that your eye is viewing from, AKA the horizon line.
I feel like with the laser beam you were actually trying to describe perspective but in the context of cross contours. Very confusing I think I only understood it because I am already familiar with cross contours and perspective.
David King hey thanks for the feedback! Cross contours are definitely part of the broader topic of perspective. If you can refer me to explanations of how cross contours curve from the observers point of view, please let me know, because the only explanations I could find were about objects above and below the horizon line which is relevant only when the objects are parallel or perpendicular to the ground plane (eg lamppost example in my eye level video). When things are at other tilts and angles, you need to think about the angle of the form to your eyes which is what the laser beam is about
To silence my left brain, must visit “the analytical” before my right brain can react intuitively. Which video did you do cylinders and boxes, Kenzo?
Never mind! I think I’ve found it!
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I think Vilppu used this in every drawing tutorial he made. I like his method better
DG990 Z0 Ah really? How did he like to explain it?
Love Life Drawing Like a curvy "T" shape, I can't really grasp the concept yet, everytime he draws, he puts some curvy line to show the volume within his figure drawing, I don't know how, somehow he always put it in the correct spot.
DG990 Z0 ok that sounds cool. I’ll have to check out his course because i always hear such good things
I think the curvy T shape described by Vilppu is show overlaps in the form to show depth, but contour lines are helpful to imagine the form in perspective, whether there is any overlapping or not.
Ojaswini V Ah okay so it’s like the T overlaps from Hamptons book. Cool thanks!
The laser beam bit ? Not so easy to follow, but when you showed how the T-shirt sleeve created a cross-contour line I think it made better sense.
good feedback thanks Peter!
Helpful:
I thought your idea of keeping the contour line at a right angle (in your mind) and then drawing a laser line to the contour helpful in determining whether to draw the contour curve concave or convex.
Confusing:
6:13 "the cross-contour line curves are curving back towards the smaller angle."
-What? What is the smaller angle? It curves back to the sides of the glass, but what else do you mean?
6:49 "How big should the cross-contour line shape be?"
-You said the angle "is not that much smaller" for the shallower cross-contour shape. When you point the glass away, you said "this is quite a small angle now. So the cross-contour line shape from my point of view, is big."
-I don't get your explanation. The laser line from your eyes and the contour line when the glass is level makes a certain angle. When you tilt the glass away from you and we are not changing the angle of the laser line from our eyes, then we're making that new angle bigger, right? It's not smaller, like you said.
So a smaller angle gives a shallower cross-contour line and bigger one gives a rounder one.
yeah good questions! imagine your laserbeam hitting the form. when your eyes are perpendicular to the form, it's 90 degrees on each side of your laserbeam. here you see the cross contour as a straight line. when the form is not perpendicular to your eyes, there's two different angles, e.g. 120 above and 60 below. from your point of view, when you draw it, the direction of the curve is going towards the side with the smaller angle.
if the angles are 80 on one side and 100 on the other, the cross contour curve will be shallow. the ellipse you draw will be narrow and thin. if the angles are 10 and 170, the ellipse you draw will be wide and big, almost like a circle.
yeah cool, lets do this
Best of luck with your drawing!
A nice approach indeed....NOW time to shoot them laser beams on walking pedestrian ..ahm I mean....the shapes
heheh yeah try to hurt anyone while using this technique
lastima q la traduccion no sea en español de todos los artistas q hevisto el es excelente
are you guys on skillshare? you can make so much money off it. This is such useful information, you're not on the right platform for it.
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Ah yes of course the laser beam
I really suck at these
It is no different than seeing a circle or ellipse from different angles
I'm more confused!!
I shot Lazer beams out of my eyes and now my old phone is broken 😥
LMFAOlaser beam eyes
It's not a laser beam, it's all about the eye level(height ) of a observer or a camera.
x1101126 no sorry that’s not right. I’ve made a whole video about eye level too. The eye level as it relates to cross contours would apply for objects parallel or perpendicular to ground plane, but that’s because the laser beam happens to be perpendicular to the form there. That’s why you can have cross contours curving both ways above or below horizon line. That’s why it’s all about laser beam and that’s why I made this video
Instructions unclear, I chopped half of my fingers off with just a few quick laser beams. Be careful with this lesson you guys. :/
Unnecessarily confusing. I think it could be explained in a easier way.