How to draw people, animals, objects, and things in 5 stages as a part of how to draw basics and fundamentals. This tutorial provides drawing tips and techniques on how to draw from start to finish. We will cover the drawing process and how to develop your drawing step by step from a sketch and gesture drawing to a establishing proportions and measurement which may address human proportions. Then proceeding to constructing mass, form and structure, which may address human anatomy. Then to issues of value, light and shadow and shading. And finally, the refinenment stage where everything culminates to a final drawing.
1.Sketch,
2.Measurement
3.Mass and Form
4.Light and Shadow
5.Refinement
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Maybe you should use the right terms from the start?
Sketch = Idea (a sketching is a term for what you are always doing from the
start and has nothing to do with the idea or concept)!,
Missed one very important one = Perspective
Measurements = referred to as Proportions,
Mass/form = comes in with proportions yet is naturally only evident when
dealing with a light source.
so.. Light/shadow = Mass/form,
I correct you here, only because I be-leave it is important to teach people
correctly from the start, otherwise it becomes misleading and
hard to follow. Having a firm understanding of perspective is the key to
every aspect of a study right from the start.
*The truth has been spkoen*
But seriously, most of the time I rushed and combines all of these stages.
That explains why some of my drawings look robotic even tho the proportions
were alright. Thanks man :^)
Great advice as always
Wow, these vids are not only informational but are full of wisdom as well.
🙂 Thank You!
thanks ALPHONSO it’s helpful to me :)
This is the best introduction to drawing I’ve ever seen. I wish I saw this
at the start of my drawing path. Thank you Alphonso!
How does one sharpen a pencil to that extent, like in the beginnign of the
video? Is there a special pencil sharpener, or do you use like a knife or
something?
Thanks so much. This has helped me a lot.
I make a goal of watching atleast 3 of your videos per day, repeats are
always okay because I can always pick up one some other detail I missed.
You’ve got a plethora of knowledge and a gift in communicating it. Thanks
for everything you do.
Omg u dont know how , much this has helped, ive been strugling with bodies
and this just made it easier thank u so much, u sir r a good teacher
This video has helped me a lot, I am studying to become an animator and it
really helped to see this video
Thank You Mr.Dunn
i can’t say enough about these videos. thank you so much for sharing your
knowledge with us.
Thank you for this tutorial, Alphonso- it is very helpful to me at this
stage ’cause I’ve seen a bunch of things you do while drawing (gestural
sketching, visual measuring, construction…) but I have no idea how to put
them together in an effective way yet. 😛 But I’m learning, and your videos
help!
You sharpen your pencils with a knife, right? I’m still trying to get used
to that- at first, I really chewed up my pencils, but I found that a knife
can make a pencil much sharper than an ordinary sharpener and exposes more
of the lead for shading.
I’ve been enlightened.
this is why I don’t pay for art school theres totally amazing teachers on
the internet for free even thought this guy should definitely receive
something for this
thank you for the video. can you please Show us differences of “comic”
styles, i mean inking differences between american comics and japanese
comics etc.
this is by far the most useful drawing video I’ve seen.
thanks for the tips. these precious tips will save me lots and lots of
time and speed up my progress.
– Drawing is not a mechanical process
– Illustrated Steps are reference points and overarching ideas to keep
in mind
– You don’t complete each drawing one step at a time, there is no formula
– You work on the entire drawing with your overarching steps in mind,
working on each step at the same time
Wow thank you very much this is the one that I’m looking for thanks
It’s hard to be in the mood to draw these days for me. I get inspiration
but get rather lazy. Watching your videos reminds me of the techniques I’ve
learned over the years and gave me some hope. Gonna try something tomorrow
Please, please please help me …. Regarding the measurment (I am having
big troubles with it) – so I look for the proportions how they are to each
other, like you said like the lenght to width, or like the head in
comparation to other bodyparts – here my question – Do we have to do this
when we dont want to draw the model 1:1 in proportions because we want it
bigger or smaller? How about if I want to draw from a picture 1:1, do I
still have to compare the bodyparts to each other? At the moment I dont do
this, I just measure the parts each for its own, because I want to be my
drawing to be exactly like the picture, so I dont have to compare the
different parts to each other. Is that correct? Please answer me, I am a
beginner, and it is so hard to go on…this is the biggest problem I have
right now. Sorry for my bad English. Thank you so much for all your videos!
thank you so much Alphonso, so helpful for a beginnner like me!
you just made my art life easier with your tutorials. . . i am forever in
your debt.
Thank you dear +ALPHONSO DUNN , I have very much enjoyed your video, and
it’s all very helpful for me as a beginner.
Great video, you’ve incorporated logic, spiritual and mental aspects. You
have another subscriber. Good job!
The only artists who cant understand you, are the ones not ready to
understand =) “If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be
believed”
Mr Dunn
great explanation, thanks!
wow dude you are biter than my teacher
subscribe after 60 sec. :)
Brilliant basics !! Loved it very useful for a beginner like me
Wow, that was very helpful!
I think its the best tip I ever got on Figure drawing in short time, thanks!
Wish you the best!
Excellent! I’m a drawing teacher and this a helpful resource to help
students understand. It helped me out too. lol. The step-by-step &
side-by-side comparison was very useful. Great job.
Love your ideas, Alphonso – thanks for sharing!!
I’m not an artist but I’m interested in learning how to draw.I really ended
your video it broke things down very well so that even I could understand.
Thanx.
Please because I wouldn’t mind having you as my tutor because I’m looking
to pay for online classes
Thank you so much I always have problems with drawing but ya helped me out
thanks dude!:)
How do you even think of these things?? Anyway thank you so much!
10/10, loved this tutorial.
Sir, what you have done is prove to the world that you are an amazing
teacher and awesome artist!!!
Hi can you explain how a girl called “Heather Rooney” gets her drawing
proportions without using these techniques?
That was nice.
Great video. Drawing a while, nevertheless your video was very useful to
me. thank you so MUCH!
thank you so MUCH! This is so simple, yet none of my drawing teachers ever
put a lesson together that is so easy to understand and COMPLETE! I
learned more here than I did in 3 years of drawing classes at university.
THANK YOU!
Awesome.Thank you so much. Greetings from Germany
captivating
Do you have a website where you personally teaches?
This is not just Drawing tips, this is a real and very good drawing course.
Thank you so much for that :-)