Fine Art

Life Drawing & Figure Study

Draw the human figure with confidence, from gesture to finished study

12 lessons4 modules9h 25m durationbeginner level

Instructor: StretchLearn Faculty

About this course

Life drawing is the discipline that underpins all figurative art, and it is learned by drawing thousands of poses, not by reading. This course gives you the working systems professionals actually use: the gesture line, head-count and eight-heads proportion, the bony and muscular landmarks you can see on a model, and the light logic that turns flat outlines into solid bodies. You finish able to set up a session, run a structured warm-up, and take a 30 to 40 minute pose to a fully shaded study.

Curriculum

Module 1: Seeing, Setup, and the Gesture3 lessons

What Life Drawing Trains and How a Session WorksPreview45m
Materials, Posture, and the Working Setup🔒45m
Gesture: The Line of Action🔒50m

Module 2: Proportion and Measuring3 lessons

The Head-Count Canon: Seven-and-a-Half to Eight Heads🔒45m
Sight-Size and Comparative Measuring🔒50m
The Torso as Two Boxes: Rib Cage and Pelvis🔒45m

Module 3: Artistic Anatomy and Construction3 lessons

The Landmarks You Can See: Bony Points🔒45m
Major Muscle Masses of the Torso and Limbs🔒50m
Construction, Contrapposto, and Weight🔒45m

Module 4: Rendering Form and a Finished Study3 lessons

The Logic of Light: Mapping Form with Value🔒50m
Planes, Edges, and Building Up Tone🔒45m
The Long Pose: Running a Complete Study🔒50m