Master Figure Drawing Capturing Natural Anatomy from Every Angle by Hide

If your characters look okay from the front but fall apart everywhere else, this class fixes that. Anime concept artist hide teaches you how to build the human body from lines to gesture drawing to solid 3D forms, so you can draw any pose fast and keep it looking alive.

🎯 What you’ll learn

• Draw clean, confident lines and control your pen for figure work
• Understand human proportions and male vs. female body differences
• Use gesture lines and 3-part block division to capture poses quickly
• Build figures in 3D with boxes, cylinders, and 1/2/3-point perspective
• Simplify the skull, torso, arms, hands, legs, and feet for practical drawing
• Create rhythm and flow in line work for natural, balanced poses
• Finish a simple character illustration from rough base to shadows

✅ Requirements

• Skills: Beginner-friendly, no anatomy background needed, just basic interest in drawing characters
• Tools: CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX Ver.3.0.4, drawing tablet and pen, PC for practice files and PSDs

📝 Description

This isn’t a watch-and-nod class. hide built it around drawing a lot. You start with the boring-but-important stuff — how you hold the pen, what makes a good line — then move straight into proportions, gesture drawing, and breaking the body into three simple blocks.

From there it gets spatial. You’ll practice boxes and cylinders, learn 1-point, 2-point, and 3-point perspective, and use wrapping lines, planes, and overlap to make flat sketches feel solid. The idea is simple: if you can draw a person as boxes in space, you can draw them from any camera angle.

Then you go part by part, but kept practical. Skull, neck, ribcage, chest, back, shoulders, hips, arms, hands, legs, and feet are all broken down into simplified bone and muscle shapes. No medical textbook overload — just enough anatomy to draw stylized characters that hold up when they move. Lots of angle drills, photo-based simplification, and landmark checks.

You wrap with rhythm. hide shows how overlapping forms, line combinations, and balance turn a stiff mannequin into a living pose, then demos a full character illustration from rough contour to clean line work to simple coloring and shadows.

🧑‍🎓 Who this course is for

• Beginners who want a solid base in figure drawing without getting lost
• Artists who can copy a pose but struggle to draw any angle or pose from imagination
• Anime, manga, and illustration fans who want more stable, lifelike bodies

🧑‍🏫 About the Author

Hello! I’m hide, an illustrator working as an anime concept artist and YouTuber. After working at an animation production company, I went freelance and contributed concept work to shows like One Piece, Pretty Cure, and Attack on Titan.

These days I run the hide channel with lessons on faces and bodies for almost 700,000 subscribers. In anime production you have to draw fast and from everywhere, so my teaching is all about stable bases, not guesswork. This class is the exact foundation routine I wish I’d drilled earlier.

🏁 Final Result

• A finished simple character illustration built on a solid 3D base, with clean lines, simple colors, and shadows — plus a full set of gesture, block, perspective, and simplified anatomy drills for your portfolio sketchbook.

📢 Guys, this is a Group Buy campaign, check the GBC forum thread to get access

You can find the course preview in the download section below.