Stop drawing stick figures and start drawing properly proportioned human bodies. An interactive lesson in drawing! Presented by Joyce Lau at SF Learning Night on November 18th, 2015.

1. LEVEL UP YOUR STICK FIGURES

2. DRAWING 101 ish

3. Start drawing, y’all.

4. ELEMENTS

5. Shape
Texture
Value
Color
Line
2D (think silhouette)
actual or implied
relative lightness or darkness
‘nother can of worms, yo
quality, weight, variation
Space distances around / between components ( + / – )
Form 3D (sphere, cube, cylinder, etc)

6. John Singer Sargent
LINE

7. Henri Matisse
SHAPE

8. Henri Matisse
FORM

9. Gustav Klimt
SPACE

10. VALUE
Vincent van Gogh
TEXTURE

11. VALUE
George Bellows

12. James Jean
COLOR

13. PRICIPLES

14. Repetition
Unity / Harmony
Proportion / Scale
Contrast
Balance
a repeating visual element
visual elements in agreement
size and relationship to one another
or variety; one extreme vs another
symmetrical vs. asymmetrical
Hierarchy order of it’s significance (emphasis, focus)
Rhythm / Movement motion through use of various elements

15. Shape
Texture
Value
Color
Line
2D (think silhouette)
actual or implied
relative lightness or darkness
‘nother can of worms, yo
quality, weight, variation
Space distances around / between components ( + / – )
Form 3D (sphere, cube, cylinder, etc)

16. Shape
Texture
Value
Color
Line
2D (think silhouette)
actual or implied
relative lightness or darkness
‘nother can of worms, yo
quality, weight, variation
Space distances around / between components ( + / – )
Form 3D (sphere, cube, cylinder, etc)

17. LINE QUALITY

18. LINE QUALITY

20. SHAPE

22. FORM

24. BODY HEAD

25. BODY

33. FACE

37. DEMO

38. 30 s gestures
2 min / 5 min
10 min
20 min
30 min
45 min
1 hr +

39. TRY

40. TIPS
Practice, Practice, Practice.
Draw your friends. Or be a creeper. Self portraits. Draw your hands. Use anything.
Paper bags. Still lifes. Straight up trace things. Copy the old masters.
Get off your keyboard. Use a pencil. Or pen. Not a tablet. It’s not the same, bro.
Get your hands dirty.

41. RESOURCES
Online
http://artists.pixelovely.com/
Meet Ups
E Bay http://www.meetup.com/Linden-Street-Figure-Drawing
SF http://www.meetup.com/SanFranciscoFigureDrawing/
SF http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Figure-Drawing-Painting-Meetup/

42. Q + A ?

43. INSPIRATION

44. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

45. John Singer Sargent

46. Francisco Goya

47. James Abbott McNeill Whistler

48. Edgar Degas

49. Pablo Picasso

50. INSPIRATI
Käthe Kollwitz

51. Gustav Klimt

52. Egon Schiele

53. He Jia Ying

54. Ikenaga Yasunari

55. James Jean

56. Jenny Saville