How to Capture the Expression of the Costumed Pose

[New Masters Academy]

In this lesson:

In this first part of our comprehensive How to Draw the Costumed Figure course, Disney Art Director Bill Perkins will teach you how to capture the essence of the costumed figure pose. You will learn how to quickly and loosely sketch from the model and learn how costume and props contribute to help you tell a story with your work. You will be working in pen and marker on paper.

In this course:

Learn how to draw the costume and props from reference or from imagination in this immense course by three senior New Masters Academy instructors – Disney art director Bill Perkins, film and game character designer and figure painter Charles Hu, and internationally renowned draftsman Glenn Vilppu. Drawing from live models and photo references, as well as master drawings of the past, you will learn to capture expression, performance, emotion and weighting of the pose as well as shapes and rhythms created by the costume folds. Bill Perkins teach you the action analysis study developed in Walt Disney Studios for animators. Charles Hu will demonstrate how to directly sketch costumed figure using many different media and how to apply language to your drawing. With Glenn Vilppu you will learn the seven major folds as well as approaches for using drapery to push the gesture of the pose and showing the form beneath in the case of clothing, as well as how different weights of fabrics behave differently.

This course is perfect for fine artists, entertainment designers, illustrators, comic & anime artists, and animators, as well as portrait painters or for anyone who wants to draw or paint drapery from observation or imagination.

[Timothy Mott]

Thanks for putting up this new series! A comment about the drawing at 7:25 in Chapter 3: I believe that the figures in this drawing are not ice skating(!) but rather engaging in a duel.

The man on the left has just shot the one on the right; you can see the smoke rising from the pistol. The victim is falling forward into the snow, and his own pistol has slipped from his hand. The other two men would be their seconds, and are there to prevent the duel if possible, and if not, then to ensure a fair outcome, and so on. They are urgently rushing toward the victim; they probably didn’t expect the shot to be fatal. (Many duels were resolved by the participants “accidentally” shooting into the air, for example.)

This might be a depiction of the duel in Eugene Onegin, where Onegin shoots his best friend Lensky.

Cheers,

Tim

• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Timothy Mott.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Timothy Mott.

[Cem KARA]

I draw some 3 minute sketches before Bill Perkins instructions. Is there any advice?

[Cem KARA]

I draw some 3 minute sketches before Bill Perkins instructions. Is there any advice?

[Gab]

Draw through the figure like how the water would flow through glass , don’t copy the contours go through like this bad boy

[Karl]

Hi customer service,
Concerning:
How to Draw the Costumed Figure with Bill Perkins, First part, Lesson 4 5 and 7:
Please, are the 3-Minute Poses also as Referenz Images available?
The current reference images do NOT be the same as shown in Bill Perkins videos.
Thank you, Karl

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