Figure Drawing Lesson 005 - Your First Milestone - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/3)

Figure Drawing Lesson 005 - Your First Milestone - 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 005 - Your First Milestone provides step-by-step figure drawing instruction with annotated frames and detailed descriptions.

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Hi guys, my name is Riven Phoenix and welcome to the structure of Man Learned to Draw

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the Human Figure from your Mind Training Course.

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So in the previous lesson, we basically concluded the first blueprints of our invention of

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this toolkit that we're going to call the human figure.

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Basically we're going to create everything from scratch and we've made a tremendous progress

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in all these different angles of our invention of the figure, understanding all the rules

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as to what it will follow when we're drawing it.

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So this is basically the basic skeletal structure of our first understandings of the human

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figure.

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So what is going to happen is that when we are going through this process of the figure

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is that basically to end up at this point, over here, enjoying the figure out like this,

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what needs to happen is that we need to understand the complete structure of the human skeleton

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in its actual bone forms in all the muscles as to how everything wraps around exactly

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what point it's supposed to be because really we are the ones who are going to create everything

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or by ourselves, we're going to decide the rules, we're going to decide how all the muscles

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are supposed to look and where they're supposed to connect.

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And this will allow us to draw figures without any effort, right?

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It's a complete understanding of it.

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So to finish this off, what we need to do is prove to ourselves that what we have done

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is working.

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And to do that, here I'm just going to draw out the three poses and this will help us

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to get into the next lesson and that is the moment of discovery where we have to turn

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the skeleton's basic structure that we're coming up with into a 3D form.

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So to start out, I'm going to draw a line, I'm going to do the side view.

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So I want you to do this completely for memory.

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There's no reason to look at anything because the idea is for hours and they were very simple.

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Right, so you're just going to draw a line here for the side view.

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So the first rule was that once you have the height, you basically just divide this

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in half, just be approximate, but be very close and approximate with it, right?

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Once you have this, we divide this over here, we know that the knee has to be about this,

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right?

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And this is a crotch area.

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This is the top of the head.

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And then if we divide this in half, like this, we know that the bottom of the peg muscles

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is going to be here from here, divide this in half, we know that the navel is supposed

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to be here and where the peg is over here, we divide this in half, we get the bottom

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of the chin.

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Now in this discovery of the human figure, we're also discovering our drawing processes.

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So once we put stuff like this down, we always want to just check if everything that we

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put down is put down correctly, right?

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You don't want to end up drawing something and then discover that you didn't measure

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it.

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Right?

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Okay.

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And we will look into this process even more.

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So once we have this, we know that once we have this line, right, from here, from the

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height of the head, if we divide this in half, went down, we really just need to draw

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out a circle like this.

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In here, we're just going to be sketchy about this.

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Just draw it like you would, like an artist, right?

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You got a circle over here and then over here, we decided that basically the jaw has to

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be on the left side because it's facing this way.

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So it's on this line here, just a little above, I'm just going to draw the jaw like this

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and give it a nice curve over here and this will give me the head for my invention.

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It was that simple, right?

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This is again, falling that same concept on invention.

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And here the neck, it's always going to be on an angle, which is going to draw a line

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like this.

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And we know that where the peck was, this is the bottom of the chin.

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If we divide this in half, we get the area for the clavicle imaginary line over here.

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We know that it's going to be a half point of this, right?

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It's not going to be here, it's going to be the half point of this going down.

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This is the pinpoint over the clavicle is going to be, we're going to go up, we're going

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to stop here because we need to give a space here as we had understood from the front view

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that when we drew out the clavicle, we drew out the chest cavity from the back, right?

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So I'm just going to draw this out like this.

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This is done.

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I know that we had decided that when we draw out the chest cavity, when we go in this

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direction, really where the back is, we're going to add just a half of this here, right?

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I took the half here imaginary line.

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And basically, I'm just going to come close to this, really just going to start to turn

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because that's how much in the back is going to go, it's going to start to come towards

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this direction, this is where the navel wasn't really, it's just above, right?

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You don't have to measure it that much.

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We know that it's going to be here here like this, right?

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And when it comes here, it's going to curve over here.

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Once it does this, we also know that where the front of this face is, it's the same thing.

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If we took a hat from here to here, if we divided this in half, we just translated

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here and it's going to be down here.

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So meaning that it's got to be curved like this and it just comes like this, that's

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easy.

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So this should, this will give us an understanding of how the chest cavity is, okay?

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So when we came down here, we know that from the navel and the crotch, if we divide

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this in three different sections, one, two, and three, right, I put a line here, it's

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really one, two, three, we know that the love handle is going to be here, right, and this

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is where the navel is, it's obviously going to be here somewhere.

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So if we drew out like this curve here, right, we know that over here, it's going to meet,

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right?

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So it has to, it's going to go here, just like this, right?

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And we had just said that it's just going to be here, half of this over here.

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And once we do this, we can get the pelvis area to look like this.

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That's a very simple idea that we came up with for the design of this invention of the

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