Figure Drawing Lesson 001 - Introduction Video to the concept of Invention - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/3)

Figure Drawing Lesson 001 - Introduction Video to the concept of Invention - The Structure of Man (Part 1)

Learn to Draw the Human Figure From Your Mind with Riven Phoenix

This visual storyboard guide for Figure Drawing Lesson 001 - Introduction Video to the concept of Invention provides step-by-step figure drawing instruction with annotated frames and detailed descriptions.

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Hey guys, my name is Riven Phoenix and welcome to the Structure of Man Learn to Draw the

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Human Figure from your Mind Training Course.

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So in this course, what my job is to get you to be able to draw the human figure from

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your mind in any angle and any pose that you want by going through a step-by-step process

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where you can slowly build up the knowledge that you need to know to be able to do that.

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So drawing the figure from your mind has been a really a lifelong dream of mine and I've

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studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Connecticut Institute of Art and I've

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been teaching art for over 20 years.

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So in these lessons, I'm going to be sharing with you 20 years of knowledge and understanding

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everything that is to know about the human figure and how to get the student to go through

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the step-by-step process where they can grasp the knowledge in the small micro bursts

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and build on top of them enough information to be able to do that.

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For these videos, what you're going to need is just a regular pencil.

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So here I'm just using a lead holder but this is an HB pencil and you also want to use

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a needed eraser.

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This pencil is really nothing more than a drafting tool which you can get really at any

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store or any art store and it comes with its own sharpener.

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Basically you measure the lead in here, you put it in here and then you can sharpen your

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lead.

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So it's much more easier to maintain our sharper point.

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So to begin this really fascinating journey as to how anyone can really develop this

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ability to draw the figure from the mind, we have to start our journey by using a very

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powerful concept and that is the concept of invention.

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Right, so to explain this, what I'm going to do is just show you a very simple example.

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I'm just going to put this to the side here.

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So the concept of invention is very simple to understand.

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So for example, let's say here I'm going to draw a very simple shape here, a diamond

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shape.

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So in all these lessons, everything that I show you, you should be doing all the exercises

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and you'll see that when you do the exercises, how you're understanding how your ability

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to draw the figure will really increase by leaves and bounds.

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So here I'm just going to draw, let's say this diamond shape here and let's say here

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I'm going to put two circles here, then I put another circle here and put an X over

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here.

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Right, so this is my first design, my first creation.

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I created this completely for my mind and it has its own rules as to how everything is

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put together.

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So obviously if I take this paper away and you ask me to draw that again, I can simply

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draw it out very fast, right, in any style that I want, basically that's it.

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And the reason I was able to reproduce this is because when I drew it first, I was its

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creator.

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I decided all the rules.

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So when I drew it again, I became its master automatically.

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Right, so in figure drawing, we're going to be using the same concept in developing the

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understanding needed for figure drawing.

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Right, so here is just a drawing here that I did completely from the mind where I'm

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showing you how your understanding of the figure will increase where you can understand

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how all the muscles wrap around each other.

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So the first exercise is that we want to do a very simple idea here and that is we

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have to invent the human figure completely from scratch.

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So what this means is we need to throw out from our mind that the human figure ever

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existed.

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We're going to have to design this thing called the human figure and this is what's going

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to allow us to understand it much more rapidly because we're going to just be the ones who

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are going to decide what the rules are.

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So for the first thing that we want to do here is I want you to draw a very simple line

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here.

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And what this is is going to be a very powerful toolkit that we are going to create here

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to train the mind to understand a very fundamental concept of this invention of the human figure

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that we are creating.

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So this is like our first basic steps or blueprints to this design of this idea we have

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of the human figure, just like this conceptual idea that we're coming up with.

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So in these rules, the first thing that we'll say that's okay, well, if we want to create

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this invention, what we want to do is when we draw out the line, this gives us basically

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the height for this invention.

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And then we want when we divide this line in half, right, we can just mark an X over

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here.

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And measure this with a pencil like this just to be more accurate, but you should be

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able to just eyeball this.

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So this gives us the center of the figure.

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So as soon as we mark the X over here in this line, this tells us automatically that this

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is going to be the crotch area of this invention, right, the middle of the figure.

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And this is a very secret formula that we're coming up with that will never change.

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Every time, any time we deal with the height of our creation of a figure, regardless of

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what type of character design we're doing, if we want it to look human-like, as soon as

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we divide it in half with an X, it always marks the area for the crotch.

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So when we now divide from the middle to the bottom, and we just mark a dot here, this

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automatically will tell us that the knees will always be above this dot here.

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So the next thing that we want to do is now take from the middle, from the top, and

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divide this in half.

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This line is always going to specify that this is approximately where the line for the

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peck muscles is going to be, the bottom of the peck muscles, right, and I'll explain

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to you in just a little bit as we move through this.

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And then above the peck muscles will be divide this here, put another line, this will always

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be approximately the bottom of the area for the chin, right, so this is the height of

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the head, right, and then where the peck muscle is here and the crotch is here, you'll

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put a dot over here, this is always going to be the naval area over here, right, so just

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to review, this is the crotch area, this is the naval, this is the bottom of the peck, this is

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the chin, and this line here is where the knees must always be above in realistic figure drawing

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from the mind that we're specifying here as a rule.

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So once we've done this, we now need to create a very simple idea of this invention and

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that is going to be our first basic, very simple manic in concept.

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So to do this, we're not really interested in any kind of details here, we just want to

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train the mind to understand very basic concepts of this.

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So to do that, here I'm just going to draw out the head.

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