Art Institute of Las Vegas
Advanced Life Drawing MMA 213
Intructor: Ruel Pascual



 * I highly recommend going to the workshop on Saturdays from 1-5pm.
   3 Ps! practice, practice, practice. Mileage on your pencil.

Week 1: Gesture Drawing

-Lay-In
-Line of Action
-Rhythm
-Movement
-Flow
-Line Quality
-Squash and Stretch

Homework:
  Draw 20 gesture drawings in your sketch book.
  Just capture the essence of the pose.
  Don't worry about detail of the clothes.
  These should be drawn in 1 - 2 minutes time.
 
 
Week 2: Form & More Gesture Drawings

-Spherical
-Cylinder
-Box
-Ellipses
-Cone

Homework:
  Draw 10 gesture drawings with simple forms in your sketch book.
  Let your pose be driven by emotion.
  Capture the mood, make the pose readable by others, pose in front of the mirror, what's the gesture?
  Feel the Pose! 
  These should be drawn in 5 - 10 minutes time.
 
 
Week 3: Shapes

-Silhouette
-Practice
-Squint
-Connect the Dots
-Simplify
-Line Quality
-2 Values

Homework: Draw 10 full figures from a photo or a magazine. Focus just on the shapes.

Week 4: Anatomy

In order to draw better, You need to know what drives and make up the human figure.
It's your job as an artist/animator to know the skeletal and muscle system.

-Bones
-Muscles
-Symmetry
-Curves and Straights
-Round and Box Forms

Skeletal System
Muscular System
 
Basic landmarks of the body you need to understand and use.
Front - Clavicles, Sternum, Bottom of Rib Cage, Navel, Iliac Crest
Back - Spine, Occipital Lobe, Neck, Scapulas, Sacrum
Arms -Humerus, Olecranon Process, Radius and Ulna
Legs - Pelvis, Pubic Arch, Patella, Tibia and Fibula

Interlocking Forms

-Line Quality
-Ellipses, Cylinders, Box Forms
-Landmarks of the body
-Proportion
-Overlapping parts
-Foreshortening


Always remember Gesture, Form, and Anatomy!
The more you know and practice each one the better you'll draw the figure.

Homework:
  Draw 10 full figures and label muscles and bones.
  Next week bring 18"x24" drawing pad for the Midterms.
  Feel free to email me if you have any question.


Week 5: Midterms!
Draw the model. Full figure with no shading.
Focus on correct lay-in, gesture, forms, and anatomy.
Should be on 18" x 24" paper with charcoal.
This is 25% of your grade.

Homework: Draw 10 figures in your sketchbook and use all of the lesson you've learn so far.


Week 6: Drawing with 2 Value Shading

-Good Gesture
-Describing each Form
-Overlapping parts
-Practice, practice, practice.

Homework:
 Pick out 5 photos from a magazine of figures sitting, standing, dancing etc.
 Breakdown the photograph by drawing just the essential shapes and forms.
 Make sure to get accurate proportions, gesture, and shapes.
 Figure out which parts overlap and lookout for the ellipses that wrap around the body

Week 7: Block-In, Contour, Shading

-Slow down! Draw the figure in layers or passes.
-Analyze model's pose
-Look at Gesture of the pose
-Look at the Silhouette of the body
-Start with big shapes first
-Check the angles of each part


Light and Shadow

Light Zones
 1. Highlight
 2. Light-Light
 3. Dark-Light

Shadow Zones
 4. Form Shadow
 5. Reflected Light
 6. Cast Shadow
 7. Dark Accent


 Homework:
 Draw 10 figures in your sketchbook.
 I recomended going to the Saturday workshop at 1pm.
 If you can't attented the workshop, draw from pictures.
 Make sure to think of gesture of the pose, perspective, proportions, composition and design when drawing the figure.

 For those of you that haven't chosen a figure to draw from... EMAIL me your reference photo for approval.
 Next week bring me your work in progress drawing for the FINAL on 18" x 24" white or storm grey paper.
 You can use charcoal pencil with white charcoal pencil for highlights.
 Fill up the whole paper.  I'm looking for good composition.
 This will be counted as a homework assignment so make sure to bring in your drawing and reference photo
 I would like to see your figure in the Block-In stage and if you are feeling adventurous the Contour stage.
 Things I am grading on are... gesture, proportions, anatomy, form over form, composition.

Week 8:  Portrait Drawing

Head Proportions - all are different so adjust to you model
-Frontal view of the head
-Create the basic oval shape of the head
-Make a center line from top to bottom
-Find the hairline and start dividing the head in 1/3 equal parts

Facial Features
-The Nose:
-The Eyes:
-The Mouth:
- The Ears
 -The Chin
-The Neck

 Homework:
 Draw 5 eyes, 5, noses, 5 lips, 5 ears, 5 hands
 Down to the wire! The end of quarter is almost here.
 Look for a full nude picture with good contrast and a good pose.


Week 9: Gesture, Form, Anatomy

-Line of Action
-Rhythm
-Movement
-Flow
-Line Quality
-Ellipses, Cylinders, Box Forms
-Anatomy
-Landmarks of the body
-Proportion
-Overlapping parts
-Foreshortening

The Process:
1.Learn to Look, Analyze, Observe, and See
2.Gesture of the pose: Angles and Landmarks of the body
3.Use basic Forms to describe the figure
4.What parts Squash and Stretch
5.Apply your knowledge of Anatomy to best explain the figure


Week 10: Character Drawing
-Exaggeration
-Proportions
-Cartoon/Caricature Style
-Character Design

Homework: Final
 Next week bring me your FINAL drawing.
 This is 25 % of your grade.

Week 11: Final
We are still drawing today. Bring your drawing pad.
Review Final drawing.

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