Resources Tips for Drawing the Human Form....The Human Bean

I've been absent for a little bit, but had spare time today, on my Birthday (!) to sit down and share some recently learned tips and tricks for drawing the human form. Humans often seem to be a tricky subject for artists, myself included. I am consciously looking for sketching tips and resources to improve my work.

The "Human Bean" is a fantastic technique for capturing the action, movement and shape of the torso. Everything hangs off the torso, so getting the core right is critical in our work with the human form. I'm not going to explain the technique here, but will send you over to Proko.com .They do a much better job of explaining and giving examples than I possibly could. Once you are there you will notice an extensive library of other tutorials. Enjoy!

Once I did a little practice with this sketching technique I popped in one of my favorite action movie and paused the DVD occasionally to draw some "human beans" Within one sitting, I already felt my humans had improved by leaps and bounds.

At first I focused on just "the bean" but it was natural after the first couple pages to start adding on the limbs and head etc....

This works very well for the human form and I'm thinking that it might be applicable in some fashion to the animal form as well. The bean would be more stretched out of course, but the concept is valid. I'll give it a try and post my results in the near future.


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