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Dynamic Gesture Drawing

Brian Lee
FREELessons: 15Length: 1.5 hours
Digital DrawingAdobe PhotoshopIllustrationPhoto Illustration
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1.1 Introduction

Welcome to Dynamic Gesture Drawing. In this course I will help you take your drawings to the next level by studying motion and emotion and learning how to express these topics in your drawings. I'll also show you how I add tone and color when taking a gesture drawing from pencil drawing to full color. I hope you enjoy the course.

1.Introduction
3 lessons, 12:03

1.1
Introduction
01:27

1.2
Tools of the Trade
04:07

1.3
Digital Workflow
06:29

2.Dynamic Gesture Drawing
11 lessons, 1:16:46

2.1
Line of Action
12:43

2.2
Shapes and Curves
05:41

2.3
Points of Reference for the Human Body
12:54

2.4
Silhouette
05:27

2.5
Adding Structure
05:27

2.6
Balancing the Pose
05:57

2.7
Exaggeration
03:43

2.8
Transformation
04:02

2.9
Applying Space
02:09

2.10
Applying Tone
10:54

2.11
Applying Color
07:49

3.Conclusion
1 lesson, 00:43

3.1
Conclusion
00:43

1.1 Introduction

Hi, welcome to Dynamic Gesture Drawing. My name is Brian Lee and I'll be your instructor for this course. I'm a multimedia artist with an extensive background in fine arts as well as many forms of digital art. I produce and sell my own artistic creations including children's books, custom portraits of people and landscapes, and I also work as a freelance concept artist and map painter for feature films and television. In this course, I will focus on teaching you the fundamentals of gesture drawing, and how they can be applied to build life-like portraits and stylized characters of your own artistic creations. I'm hoping you will walk away from this course with a strong set of tools that you can use to draw pretty much anything. This includes how to break complex and dynamic objects into simple shapes. How to examine and build a human body to produce life-like drawings not exaggerate and transform your drawings into images that tell a story. At the end of the course, we will look at how to apply tone and color to get your gesture drawings ready for a professional profile of this. Finally, I hope you have fun at this course you learn a lot. For each lesson, there's an exercise at the end that I hope will help you practice what you learn along the way. And if you do have an extra questions along the way, feel free to send me an email Brianleearts@gmail.com or check out my website for more information about me, brianleearts.com. So thanks for joining me out, hope to see you in the course.

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Brian Lee
Brian Lee
After receiving a bachelors degree in “Media arts and Animation” and graduating with honors from AI (Santa Monica) I dove head first into the visual effects industry where I had the opportunity to work on a range of different feature films as a compositor, concept designer, matte painter, and even a stereo vfx supervisor. I traveled around the world working and training other artists and meeting amazing people along the way . Since then I have stepped back to work as a vfx freelance artist and started building my own creative brands and products to share with the world.
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