Sketching Men: How to Draw Lifelike Male Figures, A Complete Course for Beginners (Over 600 Illustrations)

by Koichi Hagawa, Tsubura Kadomaru (Editor)

Overview

In Sketching Men, veteran art instructor Koichi Hagawa, PhD explains how to quickly capture the dynamic male form through two distinct styles of sketching:

• Very rapid (1-3 minute) line drawings that capture the essence of the subject's posture and movement—perfect for recording athletic action poses in the moment
• More finished tonal drawings, which take a bit longer to render (7-10 minutes), but fill in lots of interesting texture and wonderfully realistic details and nuances, including the play of light and shadow, three-dimensional form and a sense of mass and balance

Learn to sketch the following:

• Individual body parts and their bones and muscles
• Objects held in the hands and with both arms
• Standing and sitting poses
• Transitions from prone and sitting poses to a standing pose
• Bending, reaching and leaning poses
• Pushing, throwing and dancing poses
• Folds, gathers and drape of clothing

This book contains hundreds of detailed studies and helpful examples. Your sketches will improve rapidly as you learn all about how human anatomy—the skeleton, muscles and posture—all come together to express the uniquely male form. When you hone your line and tonal drawing skills with this book, all of your artwork will improve as a result, no matter the application: storyboarding, cartooning and graphic novels, illustration, formal drawings, painting and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784805316023
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	12/08/2020
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,072,112
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Koichi Hagawa graduated from The Tokyo University of Arts Graduate School, where he received a doctorate in art studies with a concentration in painting. He also explored films studies at New York University, and animation at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. Koichi taught drawing classes at Kodansha Famous Schools for 20 years and is currently an instructor at the Nagaoka Institute of Design, the Koto Ward Drawing Class and the Bunpodo Art School. He's the author of two Japanese art instruction books and his work has been exhibited around the world.

Edited by:
Tsubura Kadomaru has loved sketching and drawing all his life. In high school, he rehabilitated a failing art club, which he transformed into a manga and Gundam fan club where he helped to nurture the talents of future game designers and animators working in the industry today. Kadomaru studied oil painting at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He has edited many Japanese art instruction books, including Tuttle Publishing's Sketching Women.

Table of Contents

Learning to Sketch a Person Quickly 3

1 Drawing the Human Figure Quickly 5

The Merits of Quick Sketching 6

Trying Out a Time-limited Drawing 13

Memorize the Ratios and Key Elements of the Human Form 20

Essay: Observe the Body Using Negative and Positive Shapes 32

2 Visualizing Human Shapes as Cylinders 33

Using Cylindrical Shapes for a Standing Pose 34

Using Cylindrical Shapes for a Reclining Pose 38

Using Cylindrical Shapes for a Seated Pose 40

Using Cylindrical Shapes for Arm Poses 44

3 Representing Each Body Part and Its Muscles 47

Capturing Movements of the Head and Neck 48

Capturing Movements of the Upper Body and Arms 54

Capturing Movements of the Back and Arms 58

Capturing Movements from the Arm to the Hand 68

Capturing Movements of the Hands and Fingers 74

Holding Objects in the Hands 80

Essay: Capturing the Form of Hugging Something with Both Arms 89

Capturing Movements of the Lower Body and Legs 90

4 Whole-body Movements: Standing, Walking, Sitting 97

Drawing Variations of a Standing Pose 98

Drawing Variations of a Sitting Pose 112

Variations of Sitting-to-standing Transitional Movements 121

Essay: Vary the Wrinkles on Clothes 126

5 Dynamically Moving Poses-Adaptations and Expressions 127

Capturing Throwing Movements 128

Capturing the Movement of Bending Over 136

Capturing the Movement of Rising Up from a Prone Position 146

Capturing Bent and Inclined Poses 150

Capturing Movements of Pushing Poses 158

Capturing Free-dancing Movements 162

Representing Motion-generated Wrinkles on Clothing 170