Figure Drawing Lesson 007 - The Secrets of the Masters - Figure Drawing Storyboard Guide (Part 1/4)

Figure Drawing Lesson 007 - The Secrets of the Masters - 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 007 - The Secrets of the Masters 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

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the Human Figure from your Mind Training course.

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Okay, so in the previous lesson we had proved the concept of invention working on really

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rapidly increasing our ability to draw the figure because we were the ones who created

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all the rules and all the design factors about it, right, we understood where the negative

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spaces were and we also understood where the proportions were, right, so in that process

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you can see as to how in this aspect of artistic thinking we're basically layering on one idea

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on top of another basically creating a story that will become the story of figure drawing

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for us, right, and this is really just looking at how rapidly the mind learns concepts

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because it's approaching everything from its own point of view rather than adapting to

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it.

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Now we come to the really the most pivotal part of this course and here's where we will

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start to go into the direction of understanding the complete structure of the human skeleton

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which we will create completely from scratch, meaning that we will create all the bones,

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all the formulas that will allow us to create a realistic skeleton structure and then

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top of that we will put down all the muscles and then look at all the different techniques

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of being able to draw the figure, right, and the reason for doing this is because the idea

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here is that we want to master the human figure, this is why we're doing it this way and

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we're proving on paper in each lesson that what it is that we're doing is always going

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to be true.

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So to do that, what we need to do is take a look at Da Vinci in Michelangelo and this

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is going to be a really important concept to get and you will really see the fruits of

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your labor as to why we were going through this process of invention.

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So first I'm going to show you a drawing here by Da Vinci.

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This is one of his studies that he's done so notice one of the things that I had stated

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is very important to keep a sketchbook when you're going through this course is because

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when you're doing the drawings, you'll be making notes for yourself just like it is

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over here, right?

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So if you look at this drawing from Da Vinci, right, he's going through a study process

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of a painting that he's going to be doing so you can see that he's drawn out this figure

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here in an outline form, right?

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So which I already proved to you that once you have the enormous knowledge of the human

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figure, we can do it this way, just like I did it before, right?

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So this concept here, I'm just showing to you that it does exist, right?

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So the thing to understand about these studies that these master artists leave behind is

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because they really want us to look at their work and understand something from it, right?

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It's like they're trying to give away their secrets, but in a much more subdued form where

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we have to really investigate and see what is it that the artist is trying to say as to

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how they got to this very high state of thinking about the human figure.

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So if you look at this drawing very closely, you're going to see something very amazing

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about it and that is the concept of invention.

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So you'll notice that there is a grid here that Da Vinci put down, right?

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So what this grid is, is basically a formula system which we also did in one of the previous

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lessons just like this, right, to force the mind to understand concepts.

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So when Da Vinci came up with his own formula, right, in his head he's measuring everything

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out in this process and you'll see when we get to the human skull how this will really

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be a moment of Eureka, when he does this, what's happening is that he's grabbing secret

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information about how the design of the human figure looks like in the real world, right?

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So when he draws out, when he sketches out like a drawing like this, he really doesn't have

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to use the grid system is because he can just eyeball and he understands he can visually

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see the grid that allows him to create very realistic figures, right?

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So there are different formula mechanisms for that and here you can see he just divided

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it and this is like information that only he would know.

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So if he drew, let's say this figure in front of us, we would never see him use the

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formulas because he's simplified them so much that we just don't know what they are, right?

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But he's left a clue here to help us understand how the mind in the concept of invention

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works because these are very powerful toolkits that we can invent ourselves.

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Okay, so let me show you another drawing.

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Here's another drawing of Da Vinci, it's kind of small here, but you'll see he's also done

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the same thing with the grid system, right?

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He's put a grid on top of the human face here and he's measuring out stuff that allows

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him to understand what is going on.

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So there's another drawing by Da Vinci, which I don't have here, but in one of his other

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studies he's put like a star over here and from that star he holds lines down, touching

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all these little small angles of the nose, right, where everything hits and he will even

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go down to the chin.

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And the reason he does that is because if you want to create something very realistically

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you come up with a very secret formula that no one knows where you know where the grid

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