Figure Quick Sketch: How To Construct The Limbs

[th3j4ckl3]

Stumbled across your work and will follow more. Very nice. I think I have been taking the wrong approach to my pencil holding as I shake too much trying to create fine lines. Makes me frustrated. I'd like to see more on your approach of pencil holding and getting started although this video gives me a better picture. Also I think I need work on the building and establishing the form I want from scratch. This is great stuff and I will check out your website.

[Swizzik]

should I draw real bodies first before attempting to make my own figures?

[heerakjha]

wow! you do seem like a fresh designer. i hv a request to make- i wnat to learn to finish a drawing in the right way. often times it occurs to me ht mickey mouse would nt be looking tht effective hd it nt been finished well. if u cn understand this thn pls help. thank you

[sxr24k]

the drawing's are great but what i notice about all tutorials is that they never give you an idea of where to put the bulges of the muscles, I and Im sure all struggling figure artist understand the tubes and basic shapes, but where and how do you put the muscles and how do you know how far they bulge and how far down the leg they bulge before they taper off at the leg, wrist etc. If you develope a technique on how to do this you will have millions of hits.

[heerakjha]

@sxr24k go through leonardo's notebooks. such info is very well dealt in thm. in fact he struggled all his life just to develope tht method. we dnt need to think abt thm now nd yes it hs hit millions of targets already i dnt know why u never tried it. it says tht i person's full height can be divided in eight equal sections., tht the chest cavity begins at the second mark. frm the third mark we get an idea hw far the shoulder should be placed then we do a circle above second ...

[heerakjha]

@sxr24k ....mark. the muscles are placed below it that extends well up till the navel which is the third mark. towards the central point (4th diision) the wrist ends and the palms ends at the fifth division. thtz all. i hope it helps.

[bradleycontois]

do you ever draw your own porn dude? cuz if i had that mad skill i have the biggest private fap collection ever!! HENTAI FTW dont have to answer publicly a message works xD

[Thedemigodly]

@CGArtSuccess, where is it that you learn these techniques? I asume college, but what ypes of art-based classes were you taking that you learned this?

[j2cool2]

I have seen the gesture lines used before but this makes a lot more sense to me by seeing someone "in action" and exactly how they use and why they used them the way that they do. When I have seen them, it was in books on 'how to" draw. I am visual learner and while the images help some there were still question how they got from pt A to pt B when creating limbs (poses and full figures) or there is no audio in vids. Thanks

[mayettaxtriger436]

Very nice perspective :) May I ask what pencil you were useing ?

[Sarandib22]

Wow, I have never heard anyone pronounce "line" like that. It almost sounds like "laene" or "laine". Where are you from? I'd be fascinated to know.

Nice tutorial.

[VarozPk]

Is it better to start with lines of action, or does it just depend on preference?

[Miganishi]

It's ironic that I can hardly get along with artists when I'm an artist myself... maybe it is cos how crude and acid my comments are?... Dude, you talk funny.

[InSaneTK]

I keep forgetting how shading is the ultimate tool for giving form, not lines. Your video reminded me yet again of how effective and natural it is to shade the form into the paper.

[PencilPusher151]

u draw very different i like it i discovered you when i was looking up images on google

[Ardrelle1000]

Nice!! GREAT tutorial!!!

[lujia]

what is the song? Great video

[Shad0wBalrog]

The leg of the figure you are drawing at 2:14 looks allot like a character from Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's painting - Valentin-le-Desosse. Impressionism. Last amazing movemant in art.

[ChadSmith1452]

Oh one last thig while I'm here; dig the Vivaldi.

[alamahao]

nice sharped pencil XD

[mo91919]

Thank you for doing this, please don't stop doing them.

[cynzenga]

Very clear and helpful tutorial.

Thanks for sharing!.

[CandyMonster16]

wry helpful now hopefully my drawings come out better

[CGArtSuccess]

Thank you all. I hope you can apply these techniques to your figures.

[aristano]

awesome stuff man, kudos and please keep posting. :-)

[ChadSmith1452]

@CGArtSuccess Very nice. That's a Conte' pencil you're using, right?

[CGArtSuccess]

@ChadSmith1452 Yup. Good eye. I switched to carbothellos now

[ChadSmith1452]

If you like carbon pencils I suggest you try Wolff pencils. I'm addicted to them. They hold a point better than graphite and can make fine, faint lines or dense black marks as dark as charcoal.

Their only disadavandage is that the don't glide across the paper quite like conte; they "drag" a litte. Still, for anyone looking for the perfect balance between the control of graphite and the rich dark shadows of charcoal, they're the greatest thing ever to exist in the history of the universe.

[ChadSmith1452]

@CGArtSuccess Oh, carbothellos are pastel pencils... What's the advandage over the conte, in your judgement? More smudgable? (yeah, I'm mildly obscessed with pecils)

[cgaddicted]

You're an amazing artist. I tried your method featured on your blog regarding the torso, and had a ridiculous amount of success with it (I tried other methods previously, but this one is pretty much flawless).

Thanks for taking the time to share your techniques, I feel I'm a much stronger artist because of it; Much appreciated!

[mishamaru77]

Good job. Very interesting to see how figures are drawn step by step. Thanks.

[Sycra]

Awesome! Can't wait for you next one Chris.

[FantasyBank]

very helpful. thanks!