Figure drawing will make sense after this video

"No dont use a rubber!" 😂😂😂

Hey mate happy new year!!
When you were referring to gestures/squash and stretch I’m reminded of Force Drawing and Mike Mattesi.

Cheers mate!

I watched it again. I laughed again at the beginning. THANKS!

Damn. I've been wacthing loads of gesture/figure drawing tutorials, but it never really cliked for me. THIS is such an amazing video, it puts it in a different perspective, using more than just one or two tools for the drawing. Thank you so much.

this was really helpful

No shit, this actually made a ton of sense, what the f*ck.

i really loved this this, very helpful, helped me a lot in how to put all the skills together, thank you i appreciate it.

Great . Thanks for sharing. 😊

brilliant, thanks

This video is extremely useful for learning figure drawing!

FINALLY. something useful. i ve been looking for it for ages literally

Do you have a video on how to draw the arms and legs? I always struggle with making them the right size/shape, especially when it comes to the calves and forearm. I end up making them look huge

Bro your videos are so relaxing for some reason. They give me asmr lmaooo i feel so relaxed during these videos

I love this channel so much. As an adult who is self taught and trying to take my drawing more seriously, he explains things in such a way that makes it easy to digest, and it makes me really feel like I can one day be where I want to be even though I didn't grow up filling up sketchbook after sketchbook like other kids I know. Most of my life I admired art, but always thought I could never do it myself other than stupid funny drawings once in a while. This channel, and a few others have been such a great help in my process to understand that I could learn this.

Wowwww! This video is full of nuggets of gold!!!! I love how you work with value! Supper cool!

it was super fun. thank you

Killer Video, subscribed. Not sure why this channel has been hiding but I'm here now!!

I learn a lot from these videos too.

YOU cant build a table with you bare hands. I mean, niether can i , but its not nice to assume.

Your teaching style is very, very effective! Thanks!

I felt the intro so much!

I'm off to my second ever Life Drawing Class this week and, as I find them intimidating (being with people who seem to know what they're doing and I'm a novice with NO IDEA of how to approach figure drawing) this for me, is golden. I know it's all about practice but great to have some basic info as well. Will watch this several times over and get back to the rib cage lesson for practice as well - before I slink into that room. 🙂

this is the most helpful video on figure drawing I've seen, thank you !

Immediately subscribing after seeing this video. You have incredible teaching skills

great!

Figure drawing still doesn't make sense to me, but I think I now have an ACTUAL Idea of it.... I guess I will be re-watching this video a few times to understand better!

He could've started with a C or S not micro manage. Sorry, but I felt it overwhelming.

I love it. How the figure just pops out magically when you add the shadow.

what a superb video - nice one!!!

Instant level up. Thank you! Your process helps to think about what to draw, instead of where to start and how to keep everything in place. Finally can let go the fear of ruining proportions. It's much easier to enjoy drawing now.

Am I the only one who came out of this video completely confused about gestures?

One of the best advice I heard was "just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there"

Bit too complicated.

This tutorial and the gesture drawing series has been extreamly helpful for me, all of my problems where discussed prominently in these videos and eventhough im a beginner i'm feeling progress!
thank you for this high quality content of yours... i'd also like to suggest you to make a discord server so you can have a comunity of artist helping eachother out on their artworks so as to make even better improvements.. good luck sir!

Kenzo should make a tier list of most to least important steps to creating a figure

I'm so glad I've found you. I love your conversational style, detailed explanations without being verbose and mentor vs teacher approach. Great video! It's the only one I've found showing how all the tools fit together in a concise way

Oh my god, thank you for making this. When I try and study gesture, everyone has their own method and it's so difficult to know what to study in a day

Thank you!

Amazing and perfectly educating vid. So incredibly helpful I cannot begin to express

Love that intro, lol. People really don't know how frustrating it is when they tell you "dude just do it, lmao." If I could don't you think I would've already?

As an art teacher, I'm always looking for ways to communicate these fundamentals. Your delivery is fantastic! "Pelvis pants!"

My tool box is a soup. A murky soup

What are you using to draw that?

Someone is a fan of Steve Huston.

magnificent video

I realized one day what the different drawing methods are for. They are actually teaching us to perceive our subjects in a certain way. They are really just conceptual studies; teaching concepts. For instance, gesture drawings teach us to be quicker with our lines, and to feel the forms with our spatial awareness. Blind contour drawing teaches us to feel the line rather than the form (per se), and isolates the very process of observation. Perspective drawings teach us the rules of perspective. When the tools/concepts become habit, we have access to them without having to think. Then the subtleties of human expression may come forth without hindrance. These concepts are what I’ve heard others call an “alphabet.”

In truth, your eye is already well qualified enough to make the most beautiful art. Consider your ability to recognize the subtleties of faces. Even a beginner can SEE whether or not their drawing is accurate; they just don’t always know how to correct the accuracies they are already seeing. What we are learning here is how to access latent skills we in many ways already possess.