How To Draw The Draped Figure Level 2

5. Types of Folds on the Costumed Figure
In this lesson, Bill will go over different types of folds – zigzag, spiral, elbow-knee, pipe, diaper, and flowing folds. You will practice drawing them in a series of ten-minute poses.

6. How to Use Rhythm & Gesture in Costumed Figure Drawing
In this lesson, Bill will demonstrate how to build rhythms in your compositions by arranging shapes and creating near alignments that move the viewer’s eye in and around your image. These “eye pathways” help create more rhythmic movements and more dynamic drawings. You will learn how to mark them down on paper.

7. Line, Mass, & Form in Costumed Figure Drawing
In this lesson, Bill will talk about principles of design and break down the compositional design matrices dominated by line, mass, and form. He will also demonstrate how you can mix them up in your drawings.

8. Harmony in Marks with the Costumed Figure With Bill Perkins
In this lesson, you will learn how to harmonize all the marks you practiced to make before. You start by marking down the emotional expression and weighting of the pose, shapes created by the costume folds, and rhythms created by those shapes. After that, you mark down an “eye pathway” and your combination of three design matrices. Finally, you harmonize all these marks.

9. Exploring Expressive Mark-Making in Costumed Drawings With Bill Perkins
Experiment with mark-making and try to come up with new approaches. Bill suggests you “get yourself in trouble” by using scratchy lines or any other surface manipulations and learn a lot out of it.

10. How to Organize your Costume Figure Drawing With Bill Perkins
In this lesson, Bill will share his theory of breaking the drawing process into three clear stages: rendering line, rendering mass, and rendering form. These stages can go in a different order but always one at a time. Bill also will cover major and minor key concepts.