Figure Drawing Lesson 005 - Your First Milestone

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

the Human Figure from your Mind Training Course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

figure.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's a complete understanding of it.

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

is working.

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

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

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

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

So I want you to do this completely for memory.

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

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

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

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

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

right?

And this is a crotch area.

This is the top of the head.

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

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

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

of the chin.

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

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

put down is put down correctly, right?

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

it.

Right?

Okay.

And we will look into this process even more.

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

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

out a circle like this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was that simple, right?

This is again, falling that same concept on invention.

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

like this.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is done.

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

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

I took the half here imaginary line.

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

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

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

You don't have to measure it that much.

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

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

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

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

here and it's going to be down here.

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

easy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

right?

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

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

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

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

human figure, right?

These are very basic rules.

And here we know that where this was the navel, the crotch, when we divide in three parts

over here, we're going to go to the left of this and we'll just draw out the bone over

here for the leg and we're just going to wear this area is for the above of the knee,

we're just going to curve this like this and really just make it balance itself.

So it doesn't fall over and this gives us the leg here for the foot.

I'm just going to keep this very simple for now because we haven't gotten far into that

understanding yet.

I'm just going to make it like this and this gives us the basic structure for the foot.

And obviously for the, where the arm is where the shoulder is going to be, we know that

the clavicle is going to come, remember, over here, here in the front wheel, we had said

it's got to be here.

So when it comes like this, it's just going to be right over here, right?

And then you can just draw out a line over here just like this.

And this is where the crotch is, remember the pendulum over here and just draw out like

a hand over here for now, just a circle, no big deal.

This is where the navel, sorry, this is where the navel is, the belly button and over

here like a pendulum, we know that the elbow is going to be roughly around here.

So this gives us the side of the human figure.

So now if we draw, I'm going to come around here and now I'm going to draw this, I might

overlap a little bit, that's okay.

And now here I'm going to draw it out from the front, which is very simple.

In concept, right, we divide this in half, just approximate it over here, like this.

And then over here, this is the bottom of the peck muscles, the navel, the bottom of

the chin, right?

Then over here, this is where the knees are going to be above this line.

So we are just going to make it like this here, right?

Sometimes you might put a line here, just measure it and make sure it's accurate.

And before moving on, just make sure that this is in the middle, you measure everything

pretty much correctly over here.

So once this is done, I'm going to now just draw out, remember, it's really the same thing.

From here to here, if I had, if I, from here to here, if I come in the middle, come down,

I know it's just going to be like a circle over here, right?

So it's just going to be like this, right?

We didn't draw the front of the head like this before, but I'm just showing you from

the front.

It would just be like this, that's where I'm getting the shape from, right?

So here I'm just going to erase that circle in here, I just wanted to show you that in

the back, you can do that when we get to that part.

Okay, so here's the bottom of the peck muscles over here, we're going to get the clavicle

see over here, it's the clavicle, then over here, is this guy over here, right?

You got that space, that's why I did it here because I need this area of the space here

to show.

Okay, so once we have this, we know that okay, we can start to make out the chest cavity

like this, just rough it in a little bit and just look at the height and just translate

it, obviously the nipples are not going to be on the line of the bottom of the peck

muscles, they're going to be above.

So here I'm just going to curve it in just like this, right?

This is where the nipples are to the right, just go like this, just sketch it out, just

be rough about it, and here's the needle from, and this is the bottom of the peck muscles.

So if I divided this section in half, came down, I knew it was just going to be here, right?

Just like this, and here I can just make a circle over here, right?

So once we had this, now the understanding of this is very simple, we knew that it's

really just the imaginary line over here, we knew that over here where the navel is, it's

really just dividing this in three different sections, we knew that the junction was going

to be here, right?

But meaning that we had changed this and said, well, if the junction is here, we're really

just going to make this into a three-dimensional top over here of this here in Eclips, over

here, right?

I'm drawing this top here like this, right?

And making sure that I'm not drawing it here, right?

It's got a match over here to this over here, pretty much.

I'll just come over here like this, and that's it, and this junction here for this can

just go like this, and that's it, right?

And then once we have this, we knew that this line here, right, it was divided in three

different parts, we knew that the ball joint is going to be roughly around here, right?

It's got to be roughly around here, matching this, just a little side of this, so I'm just

going to put it like this.

So see how on chain, just doing it more artistically is just because it's our invention, our idea,

so we can do it in our own style.

And for the leg here, I'm just going to make it like this, over here, and make this leg

over here like this, just pull the lines in here, I'm just going to do the foot like

this, make it very easy, and then once we get more knowledge, we can begin to understand

this more, this area of the foot.

So here is the line for the half of this, right?

So here, when I'm looking at it, I'm seeing that I should have really, let's put it like

about here, so it should be like here, right?

So these are the things that you can adjust as you're going through that process, okay?

So once we have this, this is the navel area over here, so we can just, I mean, we don't

have to put a line here, we know that the navel is going to be here, and this is where

the clavicle is, we know it's an obvious statement that it cannot collide here, so here

I'm just going to just look at this, look at this, and just put the structure here, the

clavicle.

Remember, this has to be up, meaning that this is like a curve going in this up direction,

right?

And once we have this, here, we can just draw out the line for the arms, where the crotch

area is, we know that the wrist is going to be here, draw it the hand like this, where

the navel is, like a pendulum, right?

Then I got the elbow, and over here, just do the same exact thing.

Here, just draw out the hand and over here, for the pendulum, just draw it out like this,

so we've got the front done, right?

So we've proved this, and we've proved this, and the last thing we need to prove is the

back.

So for the back, just going to do it over here, this is going to be pretty easy now for

you.

Right, it's very simple, just find the middle, and then over here, I'm going to do it

over here, or above, line for the, where the knee is supposed to be above, over here

is going to be the bottom of the peck, the chin, and then the navel, right?

So from the back, now I can just draw it the way I did it here, from this here, I'm going

to divide this in half, go here, I know that this is just, needs to be like a, like a circle

over here, and that's it, and just draw it out again, in the same way, I'm just going

to shade this in, that this is the back of the, this, the structure of our toolkit, invention,

and here we know that this is where the clavicle is going to be, so obviously, it's just going

to be here.

Now you can just look at this and say, okay, it's just going to be like this, you don't

have to put the nipple zone every time, just get used to the idea of eyeballing this stuff,

this is the navel, right above this, right?

It's really just from here to here, divide this in half, but you should, you shouldn't

even have to do that, you can just eyeball it and do it this way, and that's it, this

gives us the back, right, over here, and this is going to be very simple, as if we

because we know that we are going so up high over here, up high here, it's really just

going to be like this, right, it's just going to come like this, I didn't even have to

measure anything, because I know what it is, right, so you'll see how easy it is now to

draw this area where we couldn't do it before, it's because the mind isn't there, the

information, but we made it understand, right, we know that this is the back of here, this

guy here curving, and this obviously if you could like dot it, that this is the other side,

and obviously from here if you divide this in three sections, you know that obviously

this circle is going to be here, you're going to look visually here, right, where this

is supposed to be, and then here we can just put down the leg over here, another leg over

here, and just be sketchy about, and that's it, so we've got the back, and then obviously

the knees are going to be about this, over here, so for this shoulder it's going to be

very simple, you know the navel is here, right, and you know that the clavicle is here,

so you know that over here it's got to be obviously over here because you know it cannot

collide, it's got to be in this area, right, so usually you can just do like this that

quick, and just put the lines for going in the back, and here I'm just going to draw

out the hand here, again over here is the crotch, I know that this is where the wrist is

going to be, the navel from the other side, obviously this is where the elbow is going

to be, and then over here, I need to do this, right, the wrist area, and over here I've got

the back, right, so we've proven that what we've been doing is obviously working, and our

understanding of the design of the human figure is increasing very rapidly in the mind, right,

so we've proven this also, so I'll see you in the next lesson, thanks.