How to Draw: Foreshortening with the Coil Technique
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2013
- Hey everyone, this lesson covers the 'coil technique' and how I use it when dealing with foreshortening. Something I forgot to mention that is also very important for foreshortening is overlapping lines. I don't explain it but you can see when I erase areas that I try to make sure that the closer lines overlap the more distant lines to create the illusion of depth. Anyway, hope it's still helpful.
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I feel like I learned some sacred drawing technique that my mortal soul is unworthy of.
He Was talking about a "Daemon creature" with Ram horns like he knows from experience
Hhaahha
For real tho
Wait till you see his classes on "Improve Your Sex Life".
Peasant boiiii
Ok am I the only one who was shocked when he did the lightning bolt thingy with the limbs???¿
nope. I was confused too
@@heather8871 yeahh I tried doing it but I guess I'm just gonna stay with small circles and rectangles.
I never knew about that technique as well. I learned _two_ new techniques from this video xd
I felt like I discovered a new species.
I saw the tutorial for that but it's kind of difficult for me
My god. I've been a professional illustrator for a decade but I feel like you've unlocked something new with the lighting bolt limbs. My gesture drawings have instantly improved and become more fluid.
I’ve never heard of the lightning bolt for limbs until now. It’s like my brain exploded when I saw what he did.
12:19 its beautiful. i've looked at this for five hours now
Holy shit your more dedicated than John Wick.
😂 😂
I did a double-take at that moment lol
@@adaliawright6891 same 😭
Agreed
12:19 IM CRYING HJDAGHFS how does he just move on? ?? ? I'm been laughing for like 20 minutes, he just moves on like no big deal I'm dying
I know right! Me and my brother laughed out loud when we saw this 😂
Oops
are you ok now? i hope you are not dying anymore; but well and alive
@@millibytegalaxy5260...
maybe ,bcz that guy u laughed at is none other than him 😂
Ah,yes.
Enslaved slinkies.
LMAO!
That. Is an amazing band name
@@Snapfuba agreed.
Mood
Idk why but I read it as, "enslaved kinkies"
Everyone else: either blessed or found him from Pintrest
Me: I’ve been looking for this video for a month and somehow I find it in my recommended?!?
Same :P
I just searched foreshortening and found gold :)
I wasnt looking but im pleased
blessed.ı was going down on youtube and found this
I saw the Pinterest post, then leave the app and the second I take a look at UA-cam I see this. I was like "well... I'm happy that you recommended me, but how the hell did ya know I was interested?"
10 years later and this is still helping people!
I cane here from Pinterest.
Same
Me too
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16:21 "hope it helped"
HELPED?! IT SAVED MY LIFE
Every artist bow to your new god
I KNOW RIGHT
@@ShmurplesArePurple wow this comment is old I never knew it got so many likes
me to this guy: my friend, you bow to no one.
*Bows*
**bows**
9 years ago....I remember watching these videos back in the day when I was playing around with art but never really committed any time to art. I finally did in 2020 and found out I enjoyed it. This has been very helpful!!!
That's great!!
Same
It's always cool when you do something, then you find out "Oh, professionals do this too... cool! I feel more professional now." Good Tip! Helps me all the time with foreshortening! Keep it up!
I thought everyone was being dramatic, but HOLY SHOOT, this is helpful
What do you mean?
Keep calm I’m not clara but chill out
Yeah
I started this video thinking "eh interesting" and came out of it wondering if I'd be smited for knowing this because I'm just not worthy of this knowledge
Rather B Fishing, they came from Pinterest or tumblr, I don’t know which one
"you have to understand anatomy"
Me: hAH. That's funny.
666 likes yw
Damn sorry i ruined the 966 likes
Your pfp and your username make this comment perfect.
Me who final figured out Antomy :)
@@honeylemonadearts8852 great 👍
I've been drawing 3D coils in my books since primary school, but I never thought to use them in the construction of my drawings. Thank you!
I think the reason this is so helpful is because the coiling creates almost perfect cross-contour lines that make the figure look much more convincing and thus easier for the mind to rotate as a 3d object instead of 2d.
This channel is so much better than my art teacher
+Clara Foisie Hehe, this channel IS my art teacher. Well, kinda.
+Clara Foisie is this dave?
+Sebastián Sánchez Chuquimia you know it
Same, so true
+Clara Foisie You're not alone. I've met a few artists who excelled on their own and weren't getting anywhere with an instructor. I on the other hand had good instructors epic troll face win.
I really like this guy. His techniques work really well, but also, the way he talks so casually makes you feel relaxed.
I know right! He is the perfect art teacher!
ikr :)
you ever heard of Bob Ross??
You Are Absolutely Correct 😆
M Povman I was just about to say the same thing! Like I don't feel pressured or feel like an idiot if I don't get it right (like I've had with art teachers), it's just, "Thats OK. Try again." I'm so relaxed when I'm drawing along to the tutorials. He's the new Bob Ross
That's really interesting. It's almost like there's a kind of "conservation of mass" happening where if a hand gets bigger the rest of the arm has to get smaller.
This is exactly the sort of stuff I wish I'd had in my drawing classes. "Just practice" is of course essential, but it doesn't give guidance like this.
THAT was the most dynamic teaching of foreshortening I've ever seen! Thank you!
He draws a better person in 5 seconds than I can in 5 minuets
ikr
I can barley draw Chibi style, let alone his
It's easier to draw quickly with a tablet haha
Omg same honestly I find it satisfying how quickly he draws that as well as jealous he can draw a better person in 5 secs while I take 30mins for something that's ok lol
Gamer Queen Chibi is not a style. It means little person in Japanese, loool.
My art teacher back in the day tried to teach me this lesson and I was like "pffffffft nah"
Man, was I wrong...
Emma Reisig lol I tried a version of it and I didn't get what the teacher was getting at at all. Now I feel stupid
This method is literally amazing and I cannot imagine how many artists it’s saved when it comes to perspective and foreshortening but when I go to try it out, I find out that I already struggle with drawing coils itself….
oh boy, this is gonna take a while isn’t it?
sir you've saved millions of lives with this
When UA-cam is 1,000 times better then an actual professional art class
True, I learned more from UA-cam than my professors
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I know I feel like I learned more watching (part) of this compared to years of college
12:18 ....I don’t know how to respond to this image...
the true question is why does he have that
I call that hairstyle “the lion’s mane of manliness”.
Ah yes existential crisis
It’s been 7 years and we still don’t have an answer.
@@deadaccount5427 he was going to show it to his barber so he could get a cut like that
“oops”
FINALLY!!!! A friend recommended this back in college and it helped IMMENSELY. I've been trying to find this video again for YEARS with no luck. I will probably never say this again but that you UA-cam algorithm!
I think this works so effectively because your essentially always drawing contour lines so your able to build something up in 3D. Where as drawing normally requires the ability to subtly manipulate your lines to create 3D perspective
This is a genius technique and I feel like the knowledge of the universe has kissed me
a whoooole neeeew woooooooooorld
Amber K Ik I'm late but "I love you" so much rn
Until you hold on a pencil
A. NEW FANTASTIC POINT OF VIEW
Same😂😂😂
hahhahaha xD
Him: "So now this requires a little bit of knowledge of anatomy"
Me: *looks up video on how to anatomy properly*
Yes
Yes
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Yes
Everyone is saying how helpful this was for them, while my walnut sized brain cant even draw a coil without getting confused 😂😭
omg same 😭
I'm can do the arms but I have no idea how to apply it to other shapes (like an entire body)
Same
Y'all even know how to sketch?
i thought everyone was overexaggerating but DUDEEEE this has helped me sm
12:18 whaT THE FUC K
Helmi L aaaaaaa
Helmi L lol
Helmi L IM DYIGN
I'm laughing so much, oh my god...
"oops"
I showed this to my dad and his response was "thats so coil"
Ultimate Dad Joke...
sarah alison dad jokes lol
DAD JOKE
Check his computer make sure he is not secretly Shadman
dad jokes 101
Why isn’t this a more popular technique? This has boosted my art so much! I can’t thank you enough.
I've tried block, stick, circle, etc. to learn foreshortening but all of them still hard for me to imagine. But never thought a spiral will be the most mindblowing one.
i was lost, alone and afraid
and then the magnificence of the springy spring illuminated the true path with it's holy radiance
and i was born upon a sea of curly devil horns that i can draw now, to a world born anew, a world of perspective based possibilities, a world... of wonder
Reverend Anton Very good my boy.
*its
So no head?
Yeah, I also came here to learn to draw, that’s cool
A world of thicc thighs upon thicc thighs awaits us
Fucking pissed me off of my art school not teaching this
lex teekaihuai don't expect your art school to teach you everything, learn for yourself too which is what you did by watching this video.
Ur rite pal. But i still butthurt over the $ invested in those useless art schooling. Sigh~
lex teekaihuai i know right
+Gevoian Yasin for 60k - 100k or more, you should expect foreshortening to be part of the anatomy course. In any case art school is a joke and you're better off learning from books and youtube.
+lex teekaihuai exactly ... -__-
this is quite literally a video that should never age because it will always help with art
Dayum even after like 9 years it works just as amazing
“So I hoped that helped” bro you have NO idea
I weep at this man's feet.
Same
me
What if he has no feet XD
Anamika Chakrabarty then we shall weep at the ground he is hovering above
Adam Lucas WHAT THE HELL THIS MADE ME LAUGH SOOOO HARD
This imediatly made my drawing 60% more realistic and less clunky. Thank you
I cant thank you enough for all your drawing tutorial videos they are fantastic. You are showing people how to do things and why you should do them, so many other "tutorials" are simply showing people what to do. Ive got more improvement from your iterative drawing technique in a couple of days than I have in all the previous effort I have spent trying to learn how to draw in the last 25 years. I cant wait to use this coil technique and I look forward to watching your other videos.
Tumblr has taken me to your Holy magnificent channel. Thank you for teaching me.
SAME.
yup, same here
reblog
Same
Marie Angela Miau same lol
thanks tumblr
Same
bless tumblr for leading me here. This is wonderful.
Oh my gosh same
Saem
same
DUDE U SAVED THOUSAND OF ARTISTS LIVES WE ALL ARE VERY THANKFULL
Saw this on pinterest years ago and promptly forgot UNTIL this shows up randomly on my recommended. This is it. Life might be setting me up
12:18 "oops"
Lmfao
I was always the top of all my art classes, and when I wanted to do something trickier, ie. fore-shortening, I was always shit outta luck. My teachers would always tell me to either just reposition something("You'll learn that next year/in college/etc..."...which I never did), or to just try something else. It was infuriating. And at 27 years old, with YEARS of experience, FINALLY I have my answers!!!! Seriously, why can't art teachers be like you...?
Cussing?
Most teachers assume that one is from a good background. They do not have the time to spend doing things like this. You Tube is amazing.
And here I was... willingly ignoring this sacred piece of perspective knowledge. This will become really useful!
Just starting to learn to draw! This feels like a technique that’s meant for masters once they’ve done thousands of practice sketches, this is wildly efficient! Thanks for the clear demo!
HOLY SHIT IT WORKS; I ACTUALLY LEARNED SOMETHING FROM A DRAWING TUTORIAL ON UA-cam.
i now
It's....it's all so simple now! You don't understand. Foreshortening was the bane of my existance, I couldn't do ANYTHING involving any sort of perspective outside of eye level. And I tried everything, I just couldn't grasp it without a photo reference and, as a comic artist, there's not too many exact photo references for things like dragons or talking mongeese running away from ghosts. Now I have the cover I want, and it's all thanks to you! It's beautiful! I love you!
thegriffin88 wtf with the mongeese?
thegriffin88 Comic artist? Can you tell me where I can read them?
@@jasminc.5295 webtoon
Before watching this video, I recently used this technique myself after many hours of frustration of trying to draw perspective. This was before I knew about this channel's existence, so, yea. I did this technique on my own without even knowing it is a technique. Yaaayy. Also this channel is very good, I'll subscribe.
I've been looking for a foreshortening tutorial that didn't squish my brain for so long! Thank you bro
This has really helped also
12:18
what were you photoshopping lmao
XD
That's what I want to know😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣
Aura The Lilligant Princess 😂
1000th like
The technique he's explaining, in coils, is actually called a "mesh". Meshes are 3D objects on a 2D surface that have the basic 3D wire-frame or skeleton of the object and yes, they help a LOT.
Involvement with 3D modeling software also helps one to grasp the concept of foreshortening even with objects very close to the "camera".
WOW... JUST WOW. This could be the best perspective video there is. Such a great technique that relies on pragmatism instead of artist's talent.
You sir are the Jeff Cavaliere of drawing. A no BS approach.
I thought I was the only one doing it since art tips are so against stuff like these, but it was helping me get the right angles and made it easier to draw overall, thx sir
This is such an elegant and simple way of explaining foreshortening. So many books devoted entirely to this topic take hundreds of pages to explain what you just did in about 16 minutes. well done.
12:19 "oops" hahahahahaha I'm dying
HOLY SANTA PANTS! HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF YOU UNTIL NOW! For YEARS i've wrestled with foreshortening! This is FANTASTIC!!! Thank you.
The circle on the ground plane really made the idea click. This has opened my eyes, thanks a bunch
12:19
Dang tht coil on his head lookin good
lmao😂
i watched this video YEARS ago and it came back to my recommended and im rewatching it but i didnt even remember how many techniques i use regularly came from you, so thanks bro
I feel like I rewatch this every year and it always blows my mind lol
Going back to the basics whenever I'm stuck always helps
The fact that I've never even heard the word foreshortening but I've been doing this since I was like 7 bc I just found it cool looking.
But this helped me understand it better, thank you.
i've been drawing for 25 years, and i was never really good at foreshortening. you managed to make it ALL make perfect sense. thank you :D
This is like the holy grail of art techniques.
This helps SO MUCH I’ve been trying to make a character look like they are leaning on a table,one hand on the table and another in the air. This will help my drawings ALOOT
8 years later and still really friking helpful
oh my god oh my god it works it works guys it works
holy crap it WORKS
NO but this drawing method wORKS. KOBAANNI.
I KNOW IT WORKS SO WELL
all these years i spend with not knowing this magic:0
Feona Dong WORKS SO PERFECTLY
IM SO HAPPY I FOUND THIS CHANNEL! THANK YOU TUMBLR! *HAPPY CRI*
IKR
Bluewolf 23 I CAN FINALLY DRAW OVERLY MUSCLED LEGS ON THINGS! MY DREAMS HAVE COME TRUE!
+Tim.canpy xD
+Tim.canpy YES LOL
IKR!
man, i can't believe information like this is just free on the internet. 15-20 years ago you'd have to go to a college for 3 years to get this information
I saw a post on tumblr _years_ ago about this tutorial, and thought "cool, but not _that_ helpful" and moved on
(everyone was just totally freaking out, y'know? And this is _tumblr_ I'm talking about here, freakouts happened over minor things all the time)
It looked simple and I had the fallacy of thinking "I can do that"
Finally I found the dang post again on Pinterest, looked this up, and was following along, thinking "yeah, okay, this _is_ really good, but I still don't get the hype" bc I'm pretty good at thinking in 3d, so "maybe more artists than I thought struggle with that?"
And then I got to the part of the curve/circle and adjusting it and _physically_ fucking felt a switch flip over in my brain like "oh... _OH._ "
So what I'm trying to say is that this is really rally good and definitely deserves all the hype it gets
I'm going to be honest, this entire video legit blew my mind. the technique sounds super interesting, but I was actually left gawking at the part where you just drew a gridnplane under the figure xD
This REALLY fucking works.
I find it a bit hard to use on the torso, but perhaps it's just me being a total noob. But it really helps with the arms and legs.
Also, I love how most of the comment section is people going apeshit about how this wizardry works.
I am so excited to try this! Although I understand human anatomy, I have always struggled with foreshortening. Your advice makes so much sense… what a great method - THANK YOU so much for sharing.
I feel like this video unlocked a superpower in me.
I'm feeling kinda proud for discovering Sycra without Tumblr or any social network's help (?)
I knew about him before tumblr too
I knew about him before, I just never saw this video
+4everkittens (coughing on an omelet acoustic
You're using UA-cam :/
+4everkittens want a cookie?
12:19 that face is even more messed up than the leg... lol
Ikr 😂
no. it's beautiful ;_;
Omggg Thank youuu
we all came from pinterest right?
No
Just now stumbled on this. Excellent! You may feel as if you are not finding the words, but your drawings are describing everything perfectly! This is so useful to me! Thank you!
12:18 *Jedi bussiness, get back to your drinks*
The art gods have bless us with a man with outstanding knowledge
This is the best explanation on how to foreshorten arms and legs, as well as other items, that I have ever heard or seen. Thank you for a great class. I learned something today that I will use. Great job.
I'm self taught and I have taken a few art classes to see what they are like and they teach none of the important stuff like this. Subscribed, you're videos are really thorough and I thought I had everything down but this video taught me some really useful stuff. The only thing I never really got was how big to make the object in the foreground in comparison to the objects more in the background, I always just eyeballed it.
Tyrone Lannister You are so right! I´m actually pretty shocked that I´ve learned much more for free and through cheap courses than in the artschools I attended.
You take something that is so intimidating to new artists and help make it so easy to understand and utilize. Thank you, dude, I appreciate you
I thought I made this method yesterday, but today I realized that someone already did it. A really cool method that helps me understand how things will look in perspective. Thanks, it helped me figure out what was missing in my drawing technique.
I learned a technique that change my life like im REALLY having hard time for anatomys and tried this now i feel like my i can draw again (having art blocks in a long time really unmotivated me)
Edit: *thank you good sir for your kindness to share this with us, this came a really big help for everyone, again thank you so much*
it was this easy ???? oh my god
+Valentine Spooky Jim yea ikr, i found this video long ago but now i'm really needing it so i watched it and this made it easier than i thought.
this drives me nuts that iys so easy
it was so easy until you land your pencil on the paper.
I am an artist in the game industry and this is a technique we use all the time - flip it horizontally often, can't stress how important it is to keep flipping the image as you work on it. I am sure Sycra has likely covered this before, but flipping an image (within photoshop or by using a mirror) lets you see everything wrong with your work.
I already did the coily thing when i didn't know what to draw. But i've never thought about this use-case, wow
This has to be one of the best help to draw videos I've seen. You're incredible at explaining. Very very helpful 11/10
I have been looking for this for months now. Everybody gives the same speech about perspective 1, 2, and 3 points, but no one really explained the arc thing. that makes so much more sense now. thanks.
12:18 That's one wild chin-strap
12:18 to 12:19 rip chin strap man
Sycra: Just make varying circles in order to understand where your placing your foreshortening
Me: Ah but what if i can't draw a circle in general
Lmao
just draw multiple shit circles on top of each other until you can imagine the perfect circle that's hidden in that mess
@@jorgefeliciano8183 Ive never been able to explain that method so well
The shock and amazement on my face when he did the lighting bolt thing
I came here because I saw on Pinterest.
Edit: HOLY-
I legit started dancing around my house songs a whole new world like wtf this literally accidentally taught me basic autonomy. Ty ❤
People kept recommending this to watch, and I was kind of "Meh" about it. Drawing tutorials never seem to give you much. They just sort of go, "Here's what I do, now you do it." And never really explain HOW. They never explain how to think or what to watch out for so you don't absorb anything. This, however, was flipping amazing and I can't wait to try it! I've always felt like I've sucked at foreshortening and as a result I've fallen into the habit of drawing mundane poses so I wouldn't have to worry about it, because all I ever was otherwise was frustrated. This video just rocks. Bless you :3 Subscribed.
I always struggled with foreshortening, ever since middle school.
After seeing this it's like, "I can see cleeearly noooow the rain has gooooone!"