If you get the skills assessment pdf, let me know what you think! It’s new so i would love some feedback on how useful it was and any ways to improve it
Seeing your old figure drawing attempts gives me such encouragement because I became super frustrated with my figure drawings and quit because they just looked awful compared to all the ones I saw from forums. Thank you for this video
For the most part, you're only seeing the good stuff and not all the practice required. It looks "easy" because they already went through all the "terrible" drawings. What I really love about Love Life Drawing is that they are genuine. Kenzo is showing us his struggles. He's willing to change his ideas. he is a real, genuine person unlike many other UA-camrs. One suggestion is to use less detail and focus first on the big details. In other words: simplify, simplify, and simplify and then drill into details. I would suggest just use the minimal lines to abstract (simplify) the figure drawing. Get the basic proportions with those minimal lines. When you feel you're getting the general proportions correct, start adding more lines (more details). Keep adding more detail. Before you know it you will be creating a gesture/figure drawing as good as many of the UA-camrs. This will help you with all aspects of art: Go from big to small. That is: Go from big structures to details. When you're experienced, you can do whatever you want. For instance, in a portrait drawing, you can go from the eyes to the whole face since you're seeing with your mind's eye the big structures. Good luck!
@@asimian8500 thank you for the encouragement and tips! I honestly think that that is my main problem, since I like to do everything detailed without realizing that the foundation of the drawing looks awkward or stiff, which no amount of detailing can make up for. It's been hard already since drawing humans is my weakest aspect in art but I'm ready to tackle figure drawing again. Thank you.
@@linwong1494 You're welcome! The human form and face are extremely, extremely difficult. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I forget who said it, but (I'm paraphrasing): If you can draw the human body, you can draw anything. As for details, it's just human nature. I love detailing too, but I've learned to control the detail and leave it to the rendering and not the construction. For instance, if you're doing a quick gesture drawing and have time for detail, just split the figure into the light and shadow families using only 2 or 3 values (you can always expand the value scale as you get experienced). Turn the halftones into light or shadow depending on how you want to use light. That's an artistic license. It's also called compressing the values and pushing it either into the dark or light side. Here's a quick tip to reduce the stiffness. Your first lines should be a rhythm curve for the overall pose of the body: draw a curvy line or two or three that cross the form from head to toe. This reduces the stiffness or awkwardness because a figure drawn along a curve is automatically dynamic compared to one constructed with straight lines. Kenzo does this in his figure drawings. Just start with these dynamic curves. Don't worry about the proportions. After you have these dynamic curves down, you can add more structure (more detail) with proportions. From an anatomical perspective, there are no straight lines on the human body. Even our bones are curved. The stiffness is from the mismatch between using geometric techniques of drawing straight lines and that real bodies have curves. So, use curved lines and remember curved lines can be concave (bowing inward) or convex (bowing outward). Your figures won't be stiff anymore with this simple technique.
this is the first time that I have seen someone say gesture drawing comes later in the journey. Ive been stressing over gesture and my proportions are way off as I'm trying to do 30 second gestures. Gonna try it this way. BTW anyone else come here for the art lesson and get super excited about the dog in the video?
I'm so glad I found this. I've been told to practice gestures/learn gesture first and its been super frustrating, as not having a basic grasp of proportions has been really demotivating. Its good that someone remembers the trails and tribulations of being a beginner.
Finally, someone who understands how the learning of figure drawing actually works. Starting with gesture isn't bad per se, but there is A LOT of background processing that goes into fully understanding the pose, and to pull the true value from gesture, you really need the fundamentals set, otherwise you can't really get your hand to do what you want, or the proportion to capture the actual essence. I really think a lot of drawing teachers underplay the role that motor control plays in the early stages of drawing. It takes a while for the brain-hand connection to come into play enough for the artist to not actually think about moving their hand/tool and to actually think about what they are drawing during a 2-minute gesture.
Absolutely!!! I was convinced I’d never be able to draw because my intro to life drawing was all about gesture but I didn’t have the basic “muscle memory” to make that work. It’s kinda like learning a new fitness or weight lifting routine. It’s all wobbly and I’m thinking I’ll never be able to do this so I might as well quit, then after a while my body says, “oh, it’s only that, sure I can do it” then progress starts. But it’s tempting to quit before then.
I am discovering that I truly need to develop muscle memory. Where or how would one learn how to develop that? I was attempting to do gesture drawing & can only end up stiff straight lines. I’m so frustrated & want to give up but something won’t let me. Any suggestions? Please!? 🙏🏻
@@ibelf2465 The #1 thing: Draw as much as possible. Literally. It is SO basic, but the more you draw, the more you copy, the more you draw what you see, the faster all of the improvement will happen. Successful artists draw everyday. It becomes a meditation practice. #2 Practice what this video explains. Not just once, twice, for a week straight, but do this for Months. Practice this for 3 months, at least 1 hour a day, EVERY DAY. Focus on the figure drawing using the Straight lines and gestures ( 5 minute poses, then 10 min, then 2 min, then 1 min, switching it up). THEN come back if you think you aren't improving. Most beginners give up FAR TOO quickly. You will make leaps and bounds in this skill, and it will transfer into all of your drawing and directly apply to all painting. It will change the way you see things. #3 (this applies to muscle memory) Consciously practice muscle memory. Always attempt to place good lines. No crap effort. Crap effort gives crap results. Continuous conscious effort, with a focus on correcting mistakes get you there. Over the course of those say, 3 months, you will feel it coming. Once you finish the 3 months, move to another skill, say, practice chest and abdomen anatomy for 2 weeks (still doing 1-3 hours at least of the gesture drawing to reinforce what you learned in the anatomy. Rinse and repeat with more anatomy and other skills. Just accept in all art endeavors, you WILL suck compared to skilled people. They got there through countless hours. No One, not a single one, got good in a few weeks. Every single skilled artist measured their progress in years. They make it look easy, but it wasn't when they started.
@@nibernator wow thank you so much for taking the time to leave me such a meaningful comment. I can honestly say practice/daily drawing is something I have been doing for over a year now however it has not been focused on one specific type of drawing. I am going to take your advice & put it to use. Is there an exercise/type of homework to help improve the muscle memory of lines etc/? You are amazing! I have made improvements in some areas when I go back to compare stuff from last year. I think if I narrowed the focus I would benefit much more.
@@ibelf2465 For what to practice, I think this video nails it. Practice what the video recommends and expect it to be a long time to mastery. Don't look for leaps of improvement in days or a week, but in weeks if not months. Also, I should have been more clear in my messages about Muscle Memory. You don't specifically practice muscle memory, but you practice skills enough, and eventually they become muscle memory. I think the best way to think about it is learning to play a musical instrument. Take piano. You can't play the song as a beginner, and your teacher walk you through remaining relaxed, doing all movement slow and controlled. You Focus (which is tiring) on doing things always with the best form, and slowly increase the tempo of the song as you improve and don't increase tempo if your form or the song is wrong. It is the same for drawing. Do not ingrain "bad" habits, practice with focus, remain relaxed, and with time muscle memory happen. I am not saying there is a "wrong" or "right" way to draw, but if you practice lines in a way you don't want, you cannot expect to achieve the goal of the lines you do want. 1 hour spent with focus and remaining relaxed (have fun!), will be infinitely better than 3 hours of bad work. Practice well, keep a good pace, know what you are practicing, and have persistence. The muscle memory will come. Also, make sure to have fun. None of this is worth it if you don't have fun.
You are truly a teacher. The way you organize information and the thorough resources you provide. We are very fortunate to be your students. I must admit to using many of your metaphors in the music classroom. A little bit if stealing goes a long way!
Funny, Just the other day I too referred to myself as "a student of kenzo's". After clocking some serious drawing time it really does begin to feel that way.
I've been trying to find a good place to start learning how to draw people and I've been pointed in many different directions. This simplified things nicely, thank you.
This is what I needed...I was so confused that why people put so much emphasis on gesture when they should actually first have fairly good knowledge and skill of forms, angles and basic anatomy.
THANK YOU so much for these roadmaps and the pdf, thank you for giving this to us for free. You have no idea how thankful i am. As soon as i start earning, you and artprof are the first to get my tithe😋
oh my god thank you so much for making this video. like some other comments said, people have always told me to grind out gesture drawing, but the thing is, how the hell am I supposed to know what to do when I quite literally dont know the proportions or even basic anatomy! This vid has given me a new outlook man, thank you! ❤️ (you even made a pdf 🥹)
The timing is so perfect ❤️ I was confused and was trying to make a roadmap/ steps to learn figure drawing quickest way possible. I'm studying what I can from books but tutorial are always more helpful since they have insight of teachers on subject. I hope you continue this series, Thank You 🙏🏻
Totally agree with another poster, the supermarket analogy is great. As a new artist it is such an easy trap to keep falling into regarding my progress. Especially as I learn concepts pretty quick, however training my hand and eye to work together when it comes to drawing is much slower than I'm used to when compared to things like programming or software use. On the positive, I feel like my artistic/design eye, when engaged, is able to see basic shapes in everything I look at. The frustrating part is not yet being able to recreate those shapes on the page well enough yet. I'm normally extremely patient, yet with drawing I find myself struggling to allow myself time to learn, even knowing it is a marathon not a sprint. I think it I partly due to having concepts in my head that I am afraid of losing, because I can't materialize them on paper.
Yeah with some things like maths etc which maybe we could call “brain learned” skills, I feel like it’s so much quicker, for me at least. These skills are “muscle learned” and are v slow to learn. But once you have them you can go beyond your brain understanding and create things where you don’t know how you’re doing it
What can I say! I have only found excellent content on your channel and now, I feel inspired enough to take one of your courses! I just never thought that i could do that. Now, it’s just another aisle over and I feel like I can just mosey on ever and be a part of the community! Kenzo, you are a ray of light.
I would like to thank you for posting this video. I have been figure drawing for 3 years without having developed an intuitive way to check proportions, and would not have known this was my weakest area in figure drawing if you didn't make this video and assessment chart publicly available. There are many things I have learned from your channel. You truly are doing a public service to the art community.
As someone who has tried and struggled to learn gesture drawing off and on for DECADES, this guide is fantastic. Now, to follow and just not get ahead of myself
Kinda hilarious how this free UA-cam content teaches figure drawing better than paid places like Watts atelier. This is by far the best chance for learning figure drawing. Nothing else comes close
Thank you so much Solemani for the complement. I haven't tried Watt's paid content yet but I will say there is some great stuff on their channel and i have tons of respect for what they do :) hope your drawing practice is going well!
I discovered your channel through a suggestion, and now I can't stop watching your tutorials! As an aspiring 2D animator in high school, these tutorials are so helpful and intuitive, and your knowledge of drawing is so inspiring and fun to watch!
Sorry to jump in here, but if you're into animation you're probably going to want to look into Toniko Pantoja's channel as well. He has really useful stuff to go along with what you learn here.
This video was really helpful ! I always KNOW I should do studies, deliberate studies, but between all the topics to learn like anatomy, values, gesture drawing, color etc, I get kind of lost. I eventually end up getting tired without learning anything of substance.
Please make more of these videos I am a person who needs someone to guid me trough everything.... That's why I don't draw anything in the last week's... Because I don't know where to start I was really frustrated. -. (but now I know thx to you)
Kenzo you're a lifesaver. You usually have such good materials, all for free. I also loved your analogy about the supermarket. If you estimated that the supermarket would be at point A but found out its at point F, all you'd need to do is continue walking and you'd reach it eventually
Jeez, hearing you say that there needs to be a sequence so each skill builds on the previous one... How that was not the most obvious thing when I first started to learn!?!?! LOL! Great stuff, thank you so much, I love all of your videos, you've helped me progress so much over the last couple years1 I am very much so grateful and appreciative!
Invaluable and concise information, a roadmap, to able anyone to start in the right direction. It will save a lot of frustration/failure and more importantly; Put The Ball In Your Court. Kudos!
It's been 2 years since I committed to learning how to draw, and despite the wealth of resources available to me this channel is the first thing to give a genuine consistent feeling of optimism about one day creating things that let me express my ideas and make me truly happy. I feel like I could cry every time I come back to this channel after my many pessimistic drawing practice hiatuses. Thank you. I can't honestly say I'd have come even this far without you.
I have to subscribe and like all your videos, Just for showing us your old drawing attempts, God only knows how frustrated I get every time an artist tries to explain something and says "Your attempts have to look like mine" and they draw a perfect example full of details You are the first one after months that show me the real stuff in youtube, the only one that show me I am not a failure on this thank u so much
This looks really useful for reassessment, too! Over time, I have covered all of these to some extent, but going through the list and identifying the weak spots sound like a plan :) I feel making systematic progress gets harder when you're in that middle ground, when it's not so obvious anymore what to work on next.
totally agree Kolja. you'll see in part 2, this is a cycle. so on the subsequent cycles, you need to take your landmarks, angles, forms etc to the next level
thank you so much for the video. Mainly for showing their flaws, while so many UA-camrs, like, pretend to be perfect and make us believe that they are at unreachable levels.
So first I thought "I'm trying to learn everything at once too", but that's not quite true, is it? It's more like when you've gotten a "taste" of all these skills, you start going back and forth between them with your practice?
Lol... Love how energetic our friend there is. Great video. Especially the part about not fussing over how accurate to the reference you are... Awesome!
Very helpful, as weird as it sounds I'm actually starting to think about what I'm drawing. This just opened up more things to think about when I'm doing my practices, thank you!
Thankyou so much for this. Your early approach is exactly what I’m doing … with everything - painting oils, painting acrylics,, drawing figure, apples, everything. Getting better but very slowly.
Your page could not be better titled. Your tutorials and explanation flow is so easy to understand. Thank you. I am just starting out drawing from the scratch again and this helped a lot. I will be here for a long while so I subscribed.
Thanks for another great video. It’s so hard to systematize all the elements of drawing into something coherent enough to allow freedom and consistency. Your drawings are looking great too, hope you guys are well, and thanks for all the critiques you gave me practically for free when you were getting started. Aidan.
WOW at 2 min mark the drawing on the left looked like my drawing when I was first discovering life drawing with a tutor from a 3D class. I haven't drawn in many years and I miss doing art so much. I hope to follow more like this to help me improve. I hate myself for the years I have mucked around with my life. I now wish to get back into the things I love :)
Thank you for this, super helpful! I started life drawing as a way to overcome the perfectionism I used to have, over my own creations, when I was younger. Even though there have been a few sessions, specially the first ones, where I was tempted to quit because the quality just wasn't there, I've recently started seeing some small improvements, to the point that I now want to learn how to get better.
thank you thank you thank you for everything you do!!!! this was so incredibly helpful for someone just starting out with figure drawing and has no idea as to where to begin. bless your soul
Thank you so much sir ❤️. I really don't know about figure drawing i don't know how to draw it it's very complicated for me but when I see your video i feel very relaxed thank you so much once again❤️!! The way you teach ❤️ everything is going to be easy ❤️!
Hi! I just found your videos!! I absolutely love how you present your knowledge, my brain is so receptive to your videos! While I've been going to weekly life drawing sessions, proportions have been a huge struggle and I've felt quite lost. This video cleared up so much fog in my mind as to how I'm going to actually improve. I feel like you turned on the lights of a dark room that I've been stumbling around aimlessly in. Genuinely, thank you so much.
thank you! in someone who attaches a lot of anxiety to things i want to learn and the books people throw at me and screaming about cubes and learning every muscle before i can be able to draw makes me want to give up bc i’m 26 i don’t have time to learn every muscle and bone to draw characters i enjoy
Excuse my french but this is a fucking gold mine of knowledge. It is SHOCKING that you don't charge an arm and a leg for this information and these easy to follow guides.
I teach figure drawing. I always...ALWAYS...teach skeletal rendering first. After all, lack of knowledge can be a far greater torture than the act of acquiring it.
woww! this is amazing! I always was confused what to learn first and what is the best thought flow of the drawing process. this cleared it up a lot. thanks a lot. and huge thanks for the free exercise pdf. all the best to u.
This is THE video defining where to start with human characters, figures, ocs, character design. This is where you are supposed to start as a beginner. I think alot of classes and books skip this part and sometimes jump into perspective. or people suggest loomis, which assumes you already know some of the basics.
thank you for this video! i've been working on the first 3 as often as i can and have been seeing some improvements over time there. i guess i'm a bit scared to build up onto the rest because i'm afraid of doing something wrong. i appreciate you for showing your old work kenzo! makes me feel a bit braver and have a want to continue :)
Well, I'm up to the fourth episode (Constructing the Figure) of the first series you posted on the channel, several years ago. :) I think I'm doing fairly well at picking out the structure of the figure, but need more practice just making the stylus go where I want to on the tablet.
If you get the skills assessment pdf, let me know what you think! It’s new so i would love some feedback on how useful it was and any ways to improve it
Im haveing trouble locating the check list. Please help me.thank you
Hello, Kenzo. Just did a quick overview of pdf, it looks like there is no link for the 5 BIG CURVES guide in the gesture section.
@@VieuxSaxe thank you! Will fix for version 2
@@madamlaurieg2969 hi there should be a link in description below this video
@@lovelifedrawing kenso
Seeing your old figure drawing attempts gives me such encouragement because I became super frustrated with my figure drawings and quit because they just looked awful compared to all the ones I saw from forums. Thank you for this video
For the most part, you're only seeing the good stuff and not all the practice required. It looks "easy" because they already went through all the "terrible" drawings. What I really love about Love Life Drawing is that they are genuine. Kenzo is showing us his struggles. He's willing to change his ideas. he is a real, genuine person unlike many other UA-camrs.
One suggestion is to use less detail and focus first on the big details. In other words: simplify, simplify, and simplify and then drill into details. I would suggest just use the minimal lines to abstract (simplify) the figure drawing. Get the basic proportions with those minimal lines. When you feel you're getting the general proportions correct, start adding more lines (more details). Keep adding more detail. Before you know it you will be creating a gesture/figure drawing as good as many of the UA-camrs.
This will help you with all aspects of art: Go from big to small. That is: Go from big structures to details. When you're experienced, you can do whatever you want. For instance, in a portrait drawing, you can go from the eyes to the whole face since you're seeing with your mind's eye the big structures.
Good luck!
@@asimian8500 thank you for the encouragement and tips! I honestly think that that is my main problem, since I like to do everything detailed without realizing that the foundation of the drawing looks awkward or stiff, which no amount of detailing can make up for. It's been hard already since drawing humans is my weakest aspect in art but I'm ready to tackle figure drawing again. Thank you.
@@linwong1494 You're welcome!
The human form and face are extremely, extremely difficult. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. I forget who said it, but (I'm paraphrasing): If you can draw the human body, you can draw anything. As for details, it's just human nature. I love detailing too, but I've learned to control the detail and leave it to the rendering and not the construction. For instance, if you're doing a quick gesture drawing and have time for detail, just split the figure into the light and shadow families using only 2 or 3 values (you can always expand the value scale as you get experienced). Turn the halftones into light or shadow depending on how you want to use light. That's an artistic license. It's also called compressing the values and pushing it either into the dark or light side.
Here's a quick tip to reduce the stiffness. Your first lines should be a rhythm curve for the overall pose of the body: draw a curvy line or two or three that cross the form from head to toe. This reduces the stiffness or awkwardness because a figure drawn along a curve is automatically dynamic compared to one constructed with straight lines. Kenzo does this in his figure drawings. Just start with these dynamic curves. Don't worry about the proportions. After you have these dynamic curves down, you can add more structure (more detail) with proportions.
From an anatomical perspective, there are no straight lines on the human body. Even our bones are curved. The stiffness is from the mismatch between using geometric techniques of drawing straight lines and that real bodies have curves. So, use curved lines and remember curved lines can be concave (bowing inward) or convex (bowing outward). Your figures won't be stiff anymore with this simple technique.
came to the comments to say the same thing!
this is the first time that I have seen someone say gesture drawing comes later in the journey. Ive been stressing over gesture and my proportions are way off as I'm trying to do 30 second gestures. Gonna try it this way.
BTW anyone else come here for the art lesson and get super excited about the dog in the video?
I'm so glad I found this. I've been told to practice gestures/learn gesture first and its been super frustrating, as not having a basic grasp of proportions has been really demotivating. Its good that someone remembers the trails and tribulations of being a beginner.
Finally, someone who understands how the learning of figure drawing actually works. Starting with gesture isn't bad per se, but there is A LOT of background processing that goes into fully understanding the pose, and to pull the true value from gesture, you really need the fundamentals set, otherwise you can't really get your hand to do what you want, or the proportion to capture the actual essence.
I really think a lot of drawing teachers underplay the role that motor control plays in the early stages of drawing. It takes a while for the brain-hand connection to come into play enough for the artist to not actually think about moving their hand/tool and to actually think about what they are drawing during a 2-minute gesture.
Absolutely!!! I was convinced I’d never be able to draw because my intro to life drawing was all about gesture but I didn’t have the basic “muscle memory” to make that work. It’s kinda like learning a new fitness or weight lifting routine. It’s all wobbly and I’m thinking I’ll never be able to do this so I might as well quit, then after a while my body says, “oh, it’s only that, sure I can do it” then progress starts. But it’s tempting to quit before then.
I am discovering that I truly need to develop muscle memory. Where or how would one learn how to develop that? I was attempting to do gesture drawing & can only end up stiff straight lines. I’m so frustrated & want to give up but something won’t let me. Any suggestions? Please!? 🙏🏻
@@ibelf2465
The #1 thing: Draw as much as possible. Literally. It is SO basic, but the more you draw, the more you copy, the more you draw what you see, the faster all of the improvement will happen. Successful artists draw everyday. It becomes a meditation practice.
#2 Practice what this video explains. Not just once, twice, for a week straight, but do this for Months. Practice this for 3 months, at least 1 hour a day, EVERY DAY. Focus on the figure drawing using the Straight lines and gestures ( 5 minute poses, then 10 min, then 2 min, then 1 min, switching it up). THEN come back if you think you aren't improving. Most beginners give up FAR TOO quickly. You will make leaps and bounds in this skill, and it will transfer into all of your drawing and directly apply to all painting. It will change the way you see things.
#3 (this applies to muscle memory) Consciously practice muscle memory. Always attempt to place good lines. No crap effort. Crap effort gives crap results. Continuous conscious effort, with a focus on correcting mistakes get you there. Over the course of those say, 3 months, you will feel it coming.
Once you finish the 3 months, move to another skill, say, practice chest and abdomen anatomy for 2 weeks (still doing 1-3 hours at least of the gesture drawing to reinforce what you learned in the anatomy. Rinse and repeat with more anatomy and other skills.
Just accept in all art endeavors, you WILL suck compared to skilled people. They got there through countless hours. No One, not a single one, got good in a few weeks. Every single skilled artist measured their progress in years. They make it look easy, but it wasn't when they started.
@@nibernator wow thank you so much for taking the time to leave me such a meaningful comment. I can honestly say practice/daily drawing is something I have been doing for over a year now however it has not been focused on one specific type of drawing. I am going to take your advice & put it to use. Is there an exercise/type of homework to help improve the muscle memory of lines etc/? You are amazing! I have made improvements in some areas when I go back to compare stuff from last year. I think if I narrowed the focus I would benefit much more.
@@ibelf2465 For what to practice, I think this video nails it. Practice what the video recommends and expect it to be a long time to mastery. Don't look for leaps of improvement in days or a week, but in weeks if not months.
Also, I should have been more clear in my messages about Muscle Memory.
You don't specifically practice muscle memory, but you practice skills enough, and eventually they become muscle memory.
I think the best way to think about it is learning to play a musical instrument. Take piano. You can't play the song as a beginner, and your teacher walk you through remaining relaxed, doing all movement slow and controlled. You Focus (which is tiring) on doing things always with the best form, and slowly increase the tempo of the song as you improve and don't increase tempo if your form or the song is wrong. It is the same for drawing.
Do not ingrain "bad" habits, practice with focus, remain relaxed, and with time muscle memory happen.
I am not saying there is a "wrong" or "right" way to draw, but if you practice lines in a way you don't want, you cannot expect to achieve the goal of the lines you do want.
1 hour spent with focus and remaining relaxed (have fun!), will be infinitely better than 3 hours of bad work.
Practice well, keep a good pace, know what you are practicing, and have persistence. The muscle memory will come.
Also, make sure to have fun. None of this is worth it if you don't have fun.
The supermarket analogy was great! Thank you for the video, very inspiring!
You are truly a teacher. The way you organize information and the thorough resources you provide.
We are very fortunate to be your students.
I must admit to using many of your metaphors in the music classroom. A little bit if stealing goes a long way!
Hey thanks Jada that is so kind of you to say :)
Funny, Just the other day I too referred to myself as "a student of kenzo's". After clocking some serious drawing time it really does begin to feel that way.
I've been trying to find a good place to start learning how to draw people and I've been pointed in many different directions. This simplified things nicely, thank you.
Oh man thanks for taking the time to make a PDF with that info, and for free, thank you so much
Sure thing! It’s brand new so let me know what you think via email :)
This is what I needed...I was so confused that why people put so much emphasis on gesture when they should actually first have fairly good knowledge and skill of forms, angles and basic anatomy.
this video is so so helpful. ive been looking for a roadmap on this and ive needed some references of the art progression. thank you so much.
1:38 - 1. Landmarks
2:27 - 2. Angles
3:10 - 3. Rough Proportions
4:18 - Advice 1
4:52 - 4. Basic Anatomy
6:12 - 5. Simplify Forms
7:11 - Advice 2
7:43 - 6. Simplify Values
8:20 - 7. Gesture
9:37 - Advice 3
Thank you!
THANK YOU so much for these roadmaps and the pdf, thank you for giving this to us for free. You have no idea how thankful i am. As soon as i start earning, you and artprof are the first to get my tithe😋
oh my god thank you so much for making this video. like some other comments said, people have always told me to grind out gesture drawing, but the thing is, how the hell am I supposed to know what to do when I quite literally dont know the proportions or even basic anatomy! This vid has given me a new outlook man, thank you! ❤️ (you even made a pdf 🥹)
The timing is so perfect ❤️
I was confused and was trying to make a roadmap/ steps to learn figure drawing quickest way possible. I'm studying what I can from books but tutorial are always more helpful since they have insight of teachers on subject.
I hope you continue this series, Thank You 🙏🏻
Glad I could help! It’s always going to be slightly chaotic so don’t worry too much if things go off the rails sometimes
Totally agree with another poster, the supermarket analogy is great.
As a new artist it is such an easy trap to keep falling into regarding my progress. Especially as I learn concepts pretty quick, however training my hand and eye to work together when it comes to drawing is much slower than I'm used to when compared to things like programming or software use.
On the positive, I feel like my artistic/design eye, when engaged, is able to see basic shapes in everything I look at. The frustrating part is not yet being able to recreate those shapes on the page well enough yet.
I'm normally extremely patient, yet with drawing I find myself struggling to allow myself time to learn, even knowing it is a marathon not a sprint. I think it I partly due to having concepts in my head that I am afraid of losing, because I can't materialize them on paper.
Yeah with some things like maths etc which maybe we could call “brain learned” skills, I feel like it’s so much quicker, for me at least. These skills are “muscle learned” and are v slow to learn. But once you have them you can go beyond your brain understanding and create things where you don’t know how you’re doing it
What can I say! I have only found excellent content on your channel and now, I feel inspired enough to take one of your courses! I just never thought that i could do that. Now, it’s just another aisle over and I feel like I can just mosey on ever and be a part of the community! Kenzo, you are a ray of light.
Thank you so much, always happy to hear from Love Life Drawing. Maggie keeps running and running :-)
I would like to thank you for posting this video. I have been figure drawing for 3 years without having developed an intuitive way to check proportions, and would not have known this was my weakest area in figure drawing if you didn't make this video and assessment chart publicly available. There are many things I have learned from your channel. You truly are doing a public service to the art community.
Thanks so much!
As someone who has tried and struggled to learn gesture drawing off and on for DECADES, this guide is fantastic. Now, to follow and just not get ahead of myself
Kinda hilarious how this free UA-cam content teaches figure drawing better than paid places like Watts atelier. This is by far the best chance for learning figure drawing. Nothing else comes close
Thank you so much Solemani for the complement. I haven't tried Watt's paid content yet but I will say there is some great stuff on their channel and i have tons of respect for what they do :) hope your drawing practice is going well!
Your analogy at 7:30 of walking to the supermarket and not being there yet is absolutely correct.
I discovered your channel through a suggestion, and now I can't stop watching your tutorials! As an aspiring 2D animator in high school, these tutorials are so helpful and intuitive, and your knowledge of drawing is so inspiring and fun to watch!
Sorry to jump in here, but if you're into animation you're probably going to want to look into Toniko Pantoja's channel as well. He has really useful stuff to go along with what you learn here.
@@thebottman1 Wow, he has a lot of great work. Thank you so much for the suggestion!
@@ej_ward No problem, I thought you might like it.
I have had this question forever and you're the first person to answer it, thanks!
I love your dog!!!!
This video was really helpful !
I always KNOW I should do studies, deliberate studies, but between all the topics to learn like anatomy, values, gesture drawing, color etc, I get kind of lost. I eventually end up getting tired without learning anything of substance.
I find myself in this position. Where do I start?
Please make more of these videos
I am a person who needs someone to guid me trough everything.... That's why I don't draw anything in the last week's... Because I don't know where to start I was really frustrated. -. (but now I know thx to you)
Kenzo you're a lifesaver. You usually have such good materials, all for free. I also loved your analogy about the supermarket. If you estimated that the supermarket would be at point A but found out its at point F, all you'd need to do is continue walking and you'd reach it eventually
Thanks Kenzo for this video and PDF, it's really helpful to have something like this that can prevent grey's and self imposed balding.
My God you are such a good teacher Kenzo.
Thanks John really appreciate that!
Your channel is so good! Thank you so much! I honestly learned more about drawing from you than from all of my drawing classes!
MAN thx so much for the pdf! I shall try it out first!!
Thank u kenzo and mayko for all u have done. ☺
Thanks so much for the pdf kenzo. Really helpful.
You come up with the most useful and innovative resources whenever we need them.
I absolutely love this channel
Doggy is so cute x thanks for the lesson
Jeez, hearing you say that there needs to be a sequence so each skill builds on the previous one... How that was not the most obvious thing when I first started to learn!?!?! LOL! Great stuff, thank you so much, I love all of your videos, you've helped me progress so much over the last couple years1 I am very much so grateful and appreciative!
Invaluable and concise information, a roadmap, to able anyone to start in the right direction.
It will save a lot of frustration/failure and more importantly;
Put The Ball In Your Court.
Kudos!
recently i was feeling stuck. thank you so much, it's what i was looking for.
Really great video Kenzo .You have a gift for teaching . This will help a lot of people
Amazing video!
I've learnt so much from this channel
thank you for the videos and the free content. thanks for your time and the knowledge 🙏🏼
Thank you soo much for this video and the resources you've provided. Bless you
you are the savior always,starting my drawing sessions after months,damn
That sond like useful t start off for sure.
Thx for simplifying a complex topic like that.
It's been 2 years since I committed to learning how to draw, and despite the wealth of resources available to me this channel is the first thing to give a genuine consistent feeling of optimism about one day creating things that let me express my ideas and make me truly happy. I feel like I could cry every time I come back to this channel after my many pessimistic drawing practice hiatuses. Thank you. I can't honestly say I'd have come even this far without you.
thank you that means a lot to me!
Thank you so much
this is what I like about this channel it breaks everything down into the most simple but yet effective.
🙏Thank you so much Kenzo! Susy
I have to subscribe and like all your videos, Just for showing us your old drawing attempts, God only knows how frustrated I get every time an artist tries to explain something and says "Your attempts have to look like mine" and they draw a perfect example full of details You are the first one after months that show me the real stuff in youtube, the only one that show me I am not a failure on this thank u so much
Glad I found you. You have been so helpful!
Great stuff Kenzo, love the work that you do, can't wait for pt2!
Thank you so much for sharing these. Very helpful.
Really appreciate you taking the time to put out all this fantastic content for free! 🥰
This looks really useful for reassessment, too! Over time, I have covered all of these to some extent, but going through the list and identifying the weak spots sound like a plan :) I feel making systematic progress gets harder when you're in that middle ground, when it's not so obvious anymore what to work on next.
totally agree Kolja. you'll see in part 2, this is a cycle. so on the subsequent cycles, you need to take your landmarks, angles, forms etc to the next level
thank you so much for the video. Mainly for showing their flaws, while so many UA-camrs, like, pretend to be perfect and make us believe that they are at unreachable levels.
So first I thought "I'm trying to learn everything at once too", but that's not quite true, is it? It's more like when you've gotten a "taste" of all these skills, you start going back and forth between them with your practice?
Yeah I think you keep cycling through them. That is in part 2!
Lol... Love how energetic our friend there is. Great video. Especially the part about not fussing over how accurate to the reference you are... Awesome!
Very helpful, as weird as it sounds I'm actually starting to think about what I'm drawing. This just opened up more things to think about when I'm doing my practices, thank you!
always find so much value in videos from this channel.. it's become my 'go to'
:'3 thank you for these videos, are so helpful
I have improved because of this and figuary challenge u w u tons of love
That’s so great to hear Stephanie!
Thank you. I really needed this video
Thankyou so much for this. Your early approach is exactly what I’m doing … with everything - painting oils, painting acrylics,, drawing figure, apples, everything. Getting better but very slowly.
Thank you for sharing this video.
I love seeing the way you put lines and erase them now and then. Great video!
Love these tips!! And I wish my dogs were trained like this. Wow!!
Thank you.
this is the video I've been looking for, I started learning to draw but I didn't know in which order to learn the skills. Thank you!
This video helped me quickly improve; the figure drawing process also became more effortless and intuitive. Thank you.
This is amazing!! Thank you so much!
Your page could not be better titled. Your tutorials and explanation flow is so easy to understand. Thank you. I am just starting out drawing from the scratch again and this helped a lot. I will be here for a long while so I subscribed.
Thank you so much.
Thanks for another great video. It’s so hard to systematize all the elements of drawing into something coherent enough to allow freedom and consistency.
Your drawings are looking great too, hope you guys are well, and thanks for all the critiques you gave me practically for free when you were getting started. Aidan.
Hey thanks Aidan that’s great to hear! Pt 2 coming in a couple of weeks :)
@@lovelifedrawing Awesome! Looking forward to it.
You're amazing. Can't thank you enough for this bright and on-point breakdown
Thank you for this. you're right there's a lot of thinking that goes into gesture drawing and this helped me learn how to simplify things further
Useful information. Thank you.
WOW at 2 min mark the drawing on the left looked like my drawing when I was first discovering life drawing with a tutor from a 3D class. I haven't drawn in many years and I miss doing art so much. I hope to follow more like this to help me improve. I hate myself for the years I have mucked around with my life. I now wish to get back into the things I love :)
don't hate yourself! just start now it's all good :)
a masterclass !
Thank you for this, super helpful!
I started life drawing as a way to overcome the perfectionism I used to have, over my own creations, when I was younger. Even though there have been a few sessions, specially the first ones, where I was tempted to quit because the quality just wasn't there, I've recently started seeing some small improvements, to the point that I now want to learn how to get better.
thank you thank you thank you for everything you do!!!! this was so incredibly helpful for someone just starting out with figure drawing and has no idea as to where to begin. bless your soul
Thank you so much sir ❤️. I really don't know about figure drawing i don't know how to draw it it's very complicated for me but when I see your video i feel very relaxed thank you so much once again❤️!!
The way you teach ❤️ everything is going to be easy ❤️!
I LOVE YOUR DOG!
Hi! I just found your videos!! I absolutely love how you present your knowledge, my brain is so receptive to your videos! While I've been going to weekly life drawing sessions, proportions have been a huge struggle and I've felt quite lost. This video cleared up so much fog in my mind as to how I'm going to actually improve. I feel like you turned on the lights of a dark room that I've been stumbling around aimlessly in. Genuinely, thank you so much.
That's so great to hear!
thank you! in someone who attaches a lot of anxiety to things i want to learn and the books people throw at me and screaming about cubes and learning every muscle before i can be able to draw makes me want to give up bc i’m 26 i don’t have time to learn every muscle and bone to draw characters i enjoy
Excuse my french but this is a fucking gold mine of knowledge. It is SHOCKING that you don't charge an arm and a leg for this information and these easy to follow guides.
Thank you. This video is really helping me see how to apply my sculpting knowledge to drawing.
I teach figure drawing. I always...ALWAYS...teach skeletal rendering first. After all, lack of knowledge can be a far greater torture than the act of acquiring it.
Love that man ! That's exactly the process I've been trying to formalize to myself, and the checklist I needed :) Thanks for the PDF !!
I get stuck on certain aspects of learning. I needed this..
This might be just what I need right now, Thank you so much!
woww! this is amazing! I always was confused what to learn first and what is the best thought flow of the drawing process. this cleared it up a lot. thanks a lot. and huge thanks for the free exercise pdf. all the best to u.
Thanks man!
Your videos always help me some how, ThankYou
Lots of Love from India
This is THE video defining where to start with human characters, figures, ocs, character design. This is where you are supposed to start as a beginner. I think alot of classes and books skip this part and sometimes jump into perspective. or people suggest loomis, which assumes you already know some of the basics.
thank you for this video! i've been working on the first 3 as often as i can and have been seeing some improvements over time there. i guess i'm a bit scared to build up onto the rest because i'm afraid of doing something wrong. i appreciate you for showing your old work kenzo! makes me feel a bit braver and have a want to continue :)
Well, I'm up to the fourth episode (Constructing the Figure) of the first series you posted on the channel, several years ago. :) I think I'm doing fairly well at picking out the structure of the figure, but need more practice just making the stylus go where I want to on the tablet.
"You wouldn't learn a language by reading a dictionary". This!
Great advice. Thank you 🙏. Wish I had heard this sooner.
Great explaining video. I appreciate it. & learned from it.
Super simple Thank you :)