Demo Videos from Life Drawing Academy
Human Body Proportions for Artists
In this video, you will discover different canons of human body proportions. These canons are inspired by Italian Renaissance artists, Ancient Greek Hellenistic traditions and Robert Beverly Hale, an American artist and instructor of artistic anatomy.
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How to Draw a Female Portrait in Graphite
The purpose of this lesson is to learn the proportions of the human head and the main principles of working with light and shadow, as well as linear constructive drawing. When it comes to paired objects like eyes, you need to draw them simultaneously, the left and right one at the same time. This helps to maintain symmetry and similarity in sizes.
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How to Draw a Clothed Figure
Folds of draperies that cover a human body make the artist's job harder. So, in this video lesson, I will show you how to draw a clothed figure. I begin with the main proportions of a model's body—its width and height. This drawing is about draperies and folds—it is not a portrait, so the head and hands will be omitted.
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