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Oliver Sin: Expressive Gesture Drawing

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Video Length: 2 Hours
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Originally broadcast live, this recording is a must-have as Oliver demonstrates how to go from embarrassing drawings of people that just don’t look right to drawings you can be proud of once and for all in just two hours.

You are about to learn Expressive Gesture Drawing from a genuine expert.

Category: Drawing, Expressive, Figure, Learning to Draw, sinworkshop

In this video, you’ll learn:

How to draw the essential gesture of figure drawing quickly
Ways to SEE the movement of the LIVE model
Choosing the best poses to draw
How to begin to draw the gesture
Learn what the “contrapposto” pose is and why it’s important
How to benefit from quick poses
Why THIS type of charcoal pencil is the one you should use
Simplification secrets BEFORE drawing
The keys to analyze poses before drawing
Avoiding the two biggest mistakes most people make

Meet your instructor

Oliver Sin is an alumnus of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California with a BFA in Illustration. His early career includes work with LucasArts. He then returned to that school to be an art professor for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation.

His mentors include: Zhao Ming Uw, Henry Yan, and Chein Chung-Wei. They have encouraged him to put greater efforts into capturing fleeting human expressions and paying more attention to precise composition in figurative portraits. Oliver has earned “Signature Status” with the Portrait Society of America in 2022.

Contents:

Introduction – from Peter Trippi, editor-in-chief of Fine Art Connoisseur
Getting Started – intro to model and review of Materials & Tools

How to sharpen your charcoal

1-Minute Poses: Blind Contour Line

Warm up drawings with colored pencils and markers
Learn how to see the outline of the figure–without looking at your paper!

1-Minute Poses: Shape & Movement

Capture the gesture of the figure with compressed charcoal
Focus on shape and essential movement of the figure–the fundamental of figure drawing
What pose is best for beginners
How to communicate with your model
What you should draw first, and what to wait to draw last

2-Minute Poses: Expressive Contour Line

Capture the gesture of the figure with charcoal pencil
Start out with side views to get comfortable and warmed up, then move onto ¾-view as you get more practice
What shape to use for torso when ¾-view