Figure Drawing: Learn How to Draw the Human Figure (Udemy.com)

If you’ve always wanted to learn how to draw dynamic and expressive figure drawing, or if you want to be able to draw the human body , this course is for you.

Student Reviews:

★★★★★ This is an excellent lecturer. Life Drawing is something I've wanted to do for a bit and thought that I didn't have the skills

★★★★★ Very well put together and well presented, offered excellent insights and explanations, as well as demonstrations of approaches and methods.

★★★★★  Siobhan offers a thorough approach to figure drawing, and one that makes more sense than some others I have seen. Practice is vital, and I can see a good reason to come back to this course from time to time and take the whole thing again to reinforce the concepts.

★★★★★ Siobhan focuses heavily on finding your inner expression rather than a routine “how to draw anatomy” course. As a result, it is a much deeper exploration of how you, as an artist, can make marks on the page that are truly your own. At the end of the lessons, I think it has the potential to profoundly change how you look at what it is to create art. Each lesson builds on the last in bite-size chunks and, although the entire length of the course is relatively short, it sets you up for success by teaching effecive practice techniques.

My name is Siobhan, I teach thousands of students around the world to break through creative blocks and discover the power of their unique voice through drawing. I post weekly videos on YouTube about figure drawing, and write every week on Substack about figure drawing. I've been drawing the figure as my art practice for over 20 years, and I teach a system that not only allows you to be expressive in your drawing but also teaches you how to observe anatomy and proportion precisely. Through this method you will learn an approach to drawing that will NEVER stop improving, as you develop and deepen your practice. Every drawing you make will be better than the next!

In this class you will learn what I believe are the most important aspects of figure drawing:

• how to draw in your own unique style

• how to observe, or see, like an Artist

• how to understand how the structure of the body

• how de-mystify the complex anatomy and see shapes easily

• how to simplify the figure

• and how to identify anatomy

• how to draw muscles

• how to draw anatomy

You’ll start out learning ways to unlock your own signature for drawing: your marks on paper - we’ll explore this through gesture drawing, using short 1 minute and 2 minute poses to create fluid, dynamic and powerful studies. I’ll explain exactly what gesture drawing is and what it isn’t, I’ll give you a set of exercises to develop the technique of gesture drawing, and you’ll also learn the real reason behind these ultra short poses like 30 seconds or 1 minute, and the real reason has nothing to do with making a fast sketch!

From there, you shift gears and discover the other side of the coin to gesture - a slowed down and considered contour line. This is a crucial skill that will help you to develop your observation. The way you look at anything when you draw is the key to being able to draw. And contour drawing is the most powerful and most direct way to unlock this.

You’ll learn all about blind contour, outer contours and edges, and cross contours.

After developing correct observation, and developing a way of expressing what you see, you will then learn how to apply a solid knowledge of the underlying structure. You’ll learn all about anatomy for artists, and how to identify and understand the structure that you’re drawing.

Then I’ll show you how to bring together everything in a cohesive and unified way of drawing - a Natural Way of drawing, a way of drawing based on your marks and your observation., supported by your understanding of the forms.

This last section completes a drawing skillset that i believe is powerful and will never let you down. With this, you’ll be able to draw anything.

I’ve been drawing the figure for close to 20 years now. The way I express my self though drawing is I believe who I really am as a person. Thats what it’s like, the power of discovering your own voice as an artist. Figure drawing for me is not just about proportions and anatomy it’s also deeply about creativity and expression.

I would love to share this with you and help you to discover your artistic voice through figure drawing, because not only is figure drawing a beautiful art in itself it’s also probably the most foundational art practice you can do.

So, join me in the class and start improving your drawing and your creativity today!