martes, 21 de septiembre de 2010

How to Draw the Figure


To watch the trailer go to :  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuompDs_cVY


A video trailer of a speed drawing tutorial. You will see how Artist Leonardo Pereznieto drew a girl, with live model.

Enjoy!

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Drawing the Female Figure With Live Models



Hello, my name is Leonardo Pereznieto and I would like to help you make your dream of drawing the human figure come true.

It’s not as difficult as one might think. If you have tried it in the past and you are not drawing the human figure the way you want, I will teach you how to do it in a few easy steps.
Do you remember the scene from the movie Titanic where Leonardo Di Caprio 
sketches Kate from life? Isn´t it a memorable scene that captured our 
imaginations as a dream that anyone would love to do?
Well, you can do it.
In the past I have studied several academic methods for figure drawing, 
from making boxes and geometrical figures to measuring exact anatomical 
proportions. To be honest, with all this information I just couldn’t 
draw! My figure sketches looked awkward and I was ashamed of showing 
them to others.
But I had set my mind to draw well, and I was not going to give up on this goal. During the following years I made friends with excellent older artists. I asked their permission to go along and draw with them, when they did drawings of any subject. What I discovered with one accomplished master after the other, was that none of them drew the way the books and the academy teach you to draw! 
None of these academic methods with too much “thought” and too many rules was of any use to these real artists. Rather, all of them drew in a much more natural, informal way.
Seeing this I had an “aha!” moment and realized that following the 
techniques given in art books and in academies of art were not very 
helpful to me. I started sketching in a more natural way and my 
drawings immediately improved. Then, with practice, they got even 
better.
I would not dismiss the more formal techniques in their entirety, however. I still use parts of them, integrating them into a more flexible and “natural” approach to drawing.
In this instructional ebook, I’m passing all this information to you, that took me over 20 years to gather, which I found actually WORKS, for drawing and sketching the female figure. And which can actually be applied for any subject.
In this ebook, I will teach you step by step a simple technique that works. This is how I draw. 
It includes 5 drawings; each with pictures and simple step-by-step directions. You will witness the whole process of figure drawing from beginning to end, to create a complete image that you can be proud of (and that you can sell). 
The best part about this ebook, which you don’t get in printed books, is that at the end of each drawing sequence you get a link to watch a video that shows how it was achieved in real life. You’ll see with your own eyes how each drawing started from a blank sheet of paper, how it was traced, shaded and completed. 
And I hope you’re not averse to nudity, because these drawings were done with life models which also appear in the videos, so you can draw them as well!
I do have to give a disclaimer: there is no one technique in the world that will work like magic and that will instantly make you draw perfectly. To achieve that you will have to work hard. With that out of the way, I can honestly tell you that this technique is simple and it works.
As an artist, there is no better investment than the one you can make in yourself and your career.
Enough said. Are you ready to start?
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