ImagineFX Magazine Workshops - Artist Insight - Part 2 - Figure Drawing Tutorial by Joel Carlo (September 2006).pdf

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FIGURE DRAWING
Learn how to create a digital figure study
PART in Photoshop using an approach that relies
2 on shapes and tonal values. By Joel Carlo
here are many techniques between form and tonal value that
available when you’re I discovered an easy approach to
T creating a figure study, and creating more convincing portrayals
a wide range of mediums of the human body. Today, this is the
that you can use when creating your approach I rely on when creating
work. But, whether you choose a the majority of my figure studies.
traditional or digital route, a basic My aim is to introduce you to this
understanding of figure drawing non-linear way of creating your figure
fundamentals is essential for you to drawings. You’ll learn how to break down
progress to creating more believable an image to ‘see’ basic shapes, and
and life-like figures, and one of these analyse the tonal values of a subject in
fundamentals is the subject of form. order to draw or paint them in a more
Like most artists, my introduction to convincing manner. I’ll be using are
drawing the human figure was based Photoshop, a tablet, and
on the use of lines. It wasn’t until I photo references made available by
Joel Carlo began prehend the relationship (on your DVD).
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