Studying Bridgman's Complete Guide. One important thing he does that can be learned quickly is the masses of the torso are always tilted on the sagittal, transverse and horizontal axis (X,Y,Z). Just knowing the first points you put down are going to be (in essence) the corners of boxes tilted on three axes has been huge for creating dynamic gesture with defined volumes. Happy drawing 😁
This video is truly unbelievable in explaining the basics so easily, i found myself sketching a full page in under 10 min. Thank you so much for this, i cant wait to apply for the course, it just clicked and with more practice, ill get better. Have an awesome day!
Proko. I can't believe how easy you've made it for me to start figure drawing. I was hesitant when playing and watching your post at first...then boom! I actually have what looks like a comic book torso, instead of a disfigured Skelton. Thnk u sending love from NZ ❤
This is just amazing, im definitely going to apply this in my workflow in the future as i practise. Enormous thanks to both Proko and Ryan for high quality content you produce to the next generation of comic creators.
Anyone else also feel that you can visualize the form better when you're slightly sleep deprived ? Like you can "imagine" the construction lines better ? Is there a science to this or is it just me ?
my personal theory is that at that stage, you can access the subconscious mind easily since it wants to sleep but you're working it for creative activity. the subconscious mind holds all the knowledge and creativity like a library, we can also access it when we go "autopilot" or what some people call "flow state"
When I was a young warthog I used to draw best on Sundays when I was slightly hungover… I was too tired to spend unnecessary energy over thinking … that’s my take!
Could be that the “logic” left side of your brain is probably less “turned on” when you’re sleep deprived so you’re probably just not getting bogged down in overthinking the whole drawing process. Just my guess
I love this! I've slowly been coming to an understanding of this on my own, and to see it being used by a pro is both validating and inspiring. Thank you!
Fantastic guide on the first step to drawing any character! ✏🎨 Your tips on breaking down the process make it so much easier to get started. I especially appreciate the clear explanations and practical advice. Thanks for making character drawing more approachable and fun! 👍😊
This video has some preem information, man! I never thought about considering who your drawing when you start because I never know who or what I want to draw since I have a lot of ideas. This'll help a lot with getting a good structure down and not getting stuck, thank you so much Ryan!
If only there was a discounted version of the course with just this guy's lessons. He really seems to know his stuff and how to explain and demonstrate it.
Ryan's a great teacher! But the other instructors in this course are all part of the whole team that makes comics. Each section references the others and build on each other intentionally. Ryan has a course of his own on Proko, if you're looking for that though: www.proko.com/course/introduction-to-drawing
I got suggested this person from somone on discord and this is the 1st vid of seeing from you and it's so helpful and it's explande verry well and verry simple so thx for that
Center of mass: physics and engineering class return when study draw comic book superhero, very fun calculus math. When pose character I like draw stick figure first and put body mass after. Very fast way try pose.
Added to the list, very good tips here. you will realize the improvement fast, simple as starting with the head is a looked-in decision that'll have you puzzled
Thank you for adding Turkish subtitles, thanks to you, I can benefit from this information and I want to be a comic writer. This is my dream, thanks to you, I am one step closer to this dream. It is a very nice video, thank you.
Been drawing for over 3 decades and while I can draw I have never been able to get over the mountain hurdle when trying to draw "dynamic poses" in a "comic book" style. I'm familiar with the anatomy but for whatever reason I just can't get the gesture and feel of the pose without using photo references. I just think it's one of those things, some artist have it and other's don't. It's been a constant frustration especially because I completely understand what you and other comic artist (like David Finch, Jim Lee) are talking about on videos like this one.
Do comic book artists not use the 'overhand' grip for their drawing tools when drawing? Or is it a case they learnt like that first and later switched to the 'tripod' grip when super proficient with it? I know Stan and other artists switch like this with experience, but whenever I see a 'comic book artist' or I guess animator maybe, they're always seemingly universally drawing in this manner!
It's a challenge for a lot of artists! This is a good lesson about constructing with a core but is just one step to more dynamic poses. We'll have another free lesson with Ryan soon that will help you a LOT more than this one. It'll feature him drawing Hulk. Keep an eye out!
Ryan's not ambidextrous. That's just something that made it through our QC process in editing. The times where he appears to be drawing from the left, that was flipped at some point. But not on purpose.
There are now payment plans options that may help spread that cost out a bit for you, as well as our upcoming summer sale. Hopefully, something in there lightens that for you BUT always we'll keep uploading free lessons as well!
Everyone has a different approach! Sometimes a composition will depend on you starting with the head and you should be able to attach a body to that, certainly.
This is some solid well-known basic primitive info for beginners, but the framing of this video making it seem like a trick to speed up your art is really frustrating as a more experienced artist who was hoping for something I could actually use. Please don't claim it will help you "fly" through your drawings or make drawing easy. I've been starting my figures exactly like this for over 10 years, and I'm still agonizingly slow when it comes to some of the tougher aspects. This particular artist is the least helpful one Proko features, because he depends so much on his intuition. He's previously mentioned how easy drawing is and how he sees the entire detailed image in his head and just has to fill it in. Most artists are not that lucky. I've found David Finch to be much more helpful, being open about the areas that actually are difficult (like designing a tricky pose) and how to approach that struggle. I bought the David Finch comics course but will not be buying the Marvel one.
We're glad that you found helpful materials in David Finch's course! It's a dang good one. Finding an instructor and online mentor whose methods work for best you is incredibly important. Techniques work for different people with different success rates because everyone's minds work differently.. We're presenting this true to how it works for the artist sharing it. His experience is what's made things become "intuition". He can say those words and mean them but these are practiced skills that can be broken down and replicated. That's what we all aim for in studying anatomy and forms. To know it subconsciously. This way of working really is a massive part of what makes his process as fast as it is, when paired with his hard-earned knowledge. As people who work with many instructors, we have the challenge of showing many different approaches and treating them as equally valid because art is an individual and unique thing to every person. There are plenty of comments on the Ryan's videos showing that these lessons work well for others. There are also people who comment negatively.on our videos with David. These are good things! There's something different for everyone 😁 As you said, this is well-known advice repeated by artists for a reason. If we break down how each of those artists explains it, it boils down to a few things. It informs the overall proportions with just this one shape, it's easier to break down than starting with the complex limbs, and that it allows us to refine the other parts of posing without having to redraw that main core. Those are all things that allow us to work faster. Ryan isn't the only person teaching the Marvel course but we understand if you don't gel with his ways of explaining things! We hope that you still get a lot from the free lessons with other instructors that we share here! We're coming up on some cool sections and instructors now.
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This really helps me with my manga
Love Ryan Benjamin. Always consistent art! Thank you for this!
@ch-yq5yn Glad it's been so helpful for you!
Loving that you're bringing out more and more comic art videos Proko! :)
Studying Bridgman's Complete Guide. One important thing he does that can be learned quickly is the masses of the torso are always tilted on the sagittal, transverse and horizontal axis (X,Y,Z). Just knowing the first points you put down are going to be (in essence) the corners of boxes tilted on three axes has been huge for creating dynamic gesture with defined volumes. Happy drawing 😁
This video is truly unbelievable in explaining the basics so easily, i found myself sketching a full page in under 10 min.
Thank you so much for this, i cant wait to apply for the course, it just clicked and with more practice, ill get better.
Have an awesome day!
Glad it helped you out!
Always exciting when you have Ryan Benjamin on to share his knowledge. He's an incredible illustrator, awesome to learn from such a master!
I've been drawing all of my life and this one video has already changed how I do things for the better. Great stuff.
I always love that proko brings on these amazing artists that teach us so many cool skills. Really love proko, been watching for about 5 years now (:
Thanks for letting us be a part of your art journey!
Proko. I can't believe how easy you've made it for me to start figure drawing. I was hesitant when playing and watching your post at first...then boom! I actually have what looks like a comic book torso, instead of a disfigured Skelton. Thnk u sending love from NZ ❤
Your art work is brilliant. Well done Proko. Big up!
The videos with Mr. Benjamin in them are the most helpful to me!
This is just amazing, im definitely going to apply this in my workflow in the future as i practise. Enormous thanks to both Proko and Ryan for high quality content you produce to the next generation of comic creators.
This is an INCREDIBLE video!!! I'm grinning ear-to-ear, I finally have a solid way of gesture drawing!! Thank you Proko for sharing this!
I'm glad it helps!
Thank you, this is the simplification I needed. Ryan is a legend@@ProkoTV
Anyone else also feel that you can visualize the form better when you're slightly sleep deprived ? Like you can "imagine" the construction lines better ? Is there a science to this or is it just me ?
I’m gonna try this out cuz my characters look like they’ve had eye contact with Medusa 😭
When I am on the edge of sleep I get the most vivid ideas. It's not just you, although for me it's weird imagery that gives me ideas for projects.
my personal theory is that at that stage, you can access the subconscious mind easily since it wants to sleep but you're working it for creative activity.
the subconscious mind holds all the knowledge and creativity like a library, we can also access it when we go "autopilot" or what some people call "flow state"
When I was a young warthog I used to draw best on Sundays when I was slightly hungover… I was too tired to spend unnecessary energy over thinking … that’s my take!
Could be that the “logic” left side of your brain is probably less “turned on” when you’re sleep deprived so you’re probably just not getting bogged down in overthinking the whole drawing process. Just my guess
I no longer read comics as I once did, but I really love Ryan’s art and his way of teaching.
Nicely done for a beginner. Too many people start drawing the head first without planning the torso.
I love this! I've slowly been coming to an understanding of this on my own, and to see it being used by a pro is both validating and inspiring. Thank you!
Burne Hogarth.
Fantastic guide on the first step to drawing any character! ✏🎨 Your tips on breaking down the process make it so much easier to get started. I especially appreciate the clear explanations and practical advice. Thanks for making character drawing more approachable and fun! 👍😊
I used to watch Ryan so much as a kid, love this dude
This is great! I've always had a hard with drawing bodies this helps so much!
I truly learned just from this video! Proko is top notch and so is Ryan!
These videos always help me out SO MUCH Thankyou for teaching us
Awesome tips here, really helped me loosen up my shape language for my characters, good stuff!
Ty so much for this video I’m an older gentleman just starting to draw. I really appreciate your videos.
Thanks for letting us be a part of your art journey!
This is the first time I’ve ever learned this type of way of approaching bodies thanks brother 🙏🏾
This video has some preem information, man! I never thought about considering who your drawing when you start because I never know who or what I want to draw since I have a lot of ideas. This'll help a lot with getting a good structure down and not getting stuck, thank you so much Ryan!
This makes me more excited to get back into drawing. Really love the explanation and the demo showed. Well done!!
Nice! Keep that energy going and make some drawings!
I love how you use traditional methods mate. Respect to you friend
this dude is amazing, and really knows how to teach well.
Ryan is an incredible artist. This was really helpful stuff proko thank you.
If only there was a discounted version of the course with just this guy's lessons. He really seems to know his stuff and how to explain and demonstrate it.
Ryan's a great teacher! But the other instructors in this course are all part of the whole team that makes comics. Each section references the others and build on each other intentionally.
Ryan has a course of his own on Proko, if you're looking for that though:
www.proko.com/course/introduction-to-drawing
It would be very much worth it, I could only imagine what it would offer considering what he’s giving away for free.
I got suggested this person from somone on discord and this is the 1st vid of seeing from you and it's so helpful and it's explande verry well and verry simple so thx for that
Thanks! We're glad to hear that!
This guy has a gift for teaching.
Center of mass: physics and engineering class return when study draw comic book superhero, very fun calculus math.
When pose character I like draw stick figure first and put body mass after. Very fast way try pose.
This dude is locked in
This looks like such a fun way to draw people
Absolutely amazing. This video is anatomy simplification gold🎉❤
Added to the list, very good tips here. you will realize the improvement fast, simple as starting with the head is a looked-in decision that'll have you puzzled
Thank you for adding Turkish subtitles, thanks to you, I can benefit from this information and I want to be a comic writer. This is my dream, thanks to you, I am one step closer to this dream. It is a very nice video, thank you.
Glad they help! Our goal is to help as many people learn to make art as possible.
I can understand this more then any art video tutorial i watch
This quality is soo good
Fenomenal wisdom.. thanks ✏️👍
Glad it was helpful!
This is really helpful. I’m starting a series of paintings loosely based on GOT characters/scenes.
Ryan gives very useful lessons
Center of mass❤ ty
love ryans work. its so cool
Thank you very much for the video 👍🏻
Very helpful for me always Proko Rocks always
I love this approach🙂
He is the truth!💪🏾🔥🔥🔥
I was just looking for this type of video 😂
Happy to be of service 🫡
Excellent video!! I always have problems where the chest connects to the arms and that perspective
Been drawing for over 3 decades and while I can draw I have never been able to get over the mountain hurdle when trying to draw "dynamic poses" in a "comic book" style. I'm familiar with the anatomy but for whatever reason I just can't get the gesture and feel of the pose without using photo references. I just think it's one of those things, some artist have it and other's don't. It's been a constant frustration especially because I completely understand what you and other comic artist (like David Finch, Jim Lee) are talking about on videos like this one.
Awesome ressource. Thanks!
that was perfectly explained. thank you very much! very informative and useful!
Thanks for sharing this great lesson!
This is great 👍
I respect your art sir 😮 💪💪💪👍👍👍👍
Thank you 😊
ty!
Thank you!!!
Mr. Benjamin is telling how to draw?... *Salutes* Sir Yes Sir!!
really cool!!
I understand stand core sir😮😮
Love it! Thanks
Do comic book artists not use the 'overhand' grip for their drawing tools when drawing? Or is it a case they learnt like that first and later switched to the 'tripod' grip when super proficient with it? I know Stan and other artists switch like this with experience, but whenever I see a 'comic book artist' or I guess animator maybe, they're always seemingly universally drawing in this manner!
Thankyou
Letters goooooo 🖤🖤🖤
He has the same principles as Jim Lee, establishing his priorities in a sketch
Hey proko was wondering, i am about to buy the drawing basics course, do you also have plans for drawing faces and proportions?
i use a wire frames than i do that :) it is fluid and it has sold shapes :3
Also a solid way to do it!
well that's epic
will this work on my dinosour characters?
The bean!
Exactly!!
Waiting for this for a destiny....... 🖊️ 🖤
I am struggling teribly with static poses.
It's a challenge for a lot of artists! This is a good lesson about constructing with a core but is just one step to more dynamic poses.
We'll have another free lesson with Ryan soon that will help you a LOT more than this one. It'll feature him drawing Hulk. Keep an eye out!
Theres this guy named brian proctor on youtube. Ge gods into more detil and specifis about drawing these types of bodies.
Oval/bullet shape torso is like Michael Hampton and How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way.
After what time does Proko website support reply to the email?
The weekend can take a little time. But we're usually pretty quick about it.
Interesting . I will modify the bean bag !
I can draw a head perfectly but body I can’t do I practice but can’t get it
What shocks me is that all the clothing drawn is understandable enough for me to sew it.
Birdy
Never head of "primitives" before. Applying that to this Miles Morales page now.
i prefer the gesture method
We also like starting with gesture! But Ryan's makes a strong case for starting with the center mass.
If i want my character body looks like spider man which of them it's better to draw
4:42- Lol At this point it kinda looks like you are drawing the head and neck of a B1 battle droid from SW!?!
Ta chido 😃👍
Are you ambidextrous by nature or is it a leaned ability?
Ryan's not ambidextrous. That's just something that made it through our QC process in editing. The times where he appears to be drawing from the left, that was flipped at some point. But not on purpose.
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Fck this center mass idea is really the thing
Glad it helps!
❤
I wish the coarse was way cheaper its so hard nowadays to come,up with $200
There are now payment plans options that may help spread that cost out a bit for you, as well as our upcoming summer sale.
Hopefully, something in there lightens that for you BUT always we'll keep uploading free lessons as well!
this is a huge help
Starting with the center mass is a sound approach but, starting with the head also works well. Since the head tends to lead the action.
Everyone has a different approach! Sometimes a composition will depend on you starting with the head and you should be able to attach a body to that, certainly.
It just worked...
This is some solid well-known basic primitive info for beginners, but the framing of this video making it seem like a trick to speed up your art is really frustrating as a more experienced artist who was hoping for something I could actually use. Please don't claim it will help you "fly" through your drawings or make drawing easy. I've been starting my figures exactly like this for over 10 years, and I'm still agonizingly slow when it comes to some of the tougher aspects.
This particular artist is the least helpful one Proko features, because he depends so much on his intuition. He's previously mentioned how easy drawing is and how he sees the entire detailed image in his head and just has to fill it in. Most artists are not that lucky. I've found David Finch to be much more helpful, being open about the areas that actually are difficult (like designing a tricky pose) and how to approach that struggle. I bought the David Finch comics course but will not be buying the Marvel one.
We're glad that you found helpful materials in David Finch's course! It's a dang good one. Finding an instructor and online mentor whose methods work for best you is incredibly important.
Techniques work for different people with different success rates because everyone's minds work differently.. We're presenting this true to how it works for the artist sharing it. His experience is what's made things become "intuition". He can say those words and mean them but these are practiced skills that can be broken down and replicated. That's what we all aim for in studying anatomy and forms. To know it subconsciously.
This way of working really is a massive part of what makes his process as fast as it is, when paired with his hard-earned knowledge.
As people who work with many instructors, we have the challenge of showing many different approaches and treating them as equally valid because art is an individual and unique thing to every person. There are plenty of comments on the Ryan's videos showing that these lessons work well for others. There are also people who comment negatively.on our videos with David. These are good things! There's something different for everyone 😁
As you said, this is well-known advice repeated by artists for a reason. If we break down how each of those artists explains it, it boils down to a few things. It informs the overall proportions with just this one shape, it's easier to break down than starting with the complex limbs, and that it allows us to refine the other parts of posing without having to redraw that main core. Those are all things that allow us to work faster.
Ryan isn't the only person teaching the Marvel course but we understand if you don't gel with his ways of explaining things! We hope that you still get a lot from the free lessons with other instructors that we share here! We're coming up on some cool sections and instructors now.
So many things are involved in this lesson. Many unworded.
Hello proshenko
Never ever draw head first..
I kept trying to follow guides that started at the head so I’m so glad there are also ways this has worked a lot better for me
That's For the advice I've started wrong for a while
Huh?
Always do. Sketch at least. That's what works FOR ME. So, it is NEVER black or white. So, no.
I’ve started head first for at least 8 years. I tend to give up on the drawings because I can’t get the body right to fit
Russian subs?
Russian subtitles are available as auto-translated subtitles.
Helloo