Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Hey man ! I always loved your work !  I watched all of your tutorials (even the ones you removed) , just saw that you have "figure drawing analysis" , which I'm gonna buy very soon.  Just want to thank you for being so informative  in you lessons, they are one of my all time favorites when it comes to learning how to draw the human body !

PS : I  remember you said Steve Huston was a big help for you in the beginning. I was wondering which of his courses in particular you found the most vital , but  also since then what else could you recommend ? Thanks !

Thanks man, really happy to hear that! Hope that last video was helpful

Can't remember exactly what courses Steve has, watched them years ago, but I know all of them are worth watching at least once. You can get so much out of them.

Nowadays I see him talking more than actually drawing, he's trying to focus on teaching some ideas about art, rather than actual techniques.

Other than Steve, I can recommend Proko. He's not the best at drawing tbh, but he's a good teacher

Maybe Hampton for simplified anatomy, but I don't really agree with everything he teaches - that's why one of my goals is to one day record my own simplified anatomy course

Scott Eaton has the most amazing anatomy course I've ever seen in terms of details - meant for 3d artists - but it's information oriented, you get analysis of muscles, tracing anatomy over photos and such, but not so much on how to actually draw them.

This one might seem weird as a recommendation for figure drawing, but I notice a lot of people have problems not with the placement of muscles but with the rendition of the form and the related shapes, doing proper symmetries in space, finding correct midpoints and so on, basically constructing objects in space; for that I strongly recommend Scott Robertson's book on how to draw - doing the exercises in there and then coming back to figure drawing and trying to eyeball everything will suddenly become so much easier.

Also, you can check old anatomy books from Bammes (shows how to draw anatomy) or Goldfinger (just anatomy analysis)


















Feel free to share this last image if you think anyone else will find it useful, for now it's just one imagine, but I'm working on creating a whole video based on this concept