COURSE CONTENT

1. Introduction

   3 lessons

   1. Who I am/ my credentials
   2. What you will learn
   3. Tools required

2. Getting started (basics)

   6 lessons

   1. Understanding simple shapes of the bodies
   2. Quick lines to understand the movement
   3. Proportions ? How to understand them too? Is knowing anatomy essential?
   4. Where to find references?
   5. Exercise: Make shapes, does it look like your reference?
   6. Exercise: Siluette, how to see the important parts?

3. Weight/Muscles basics

   6 lessons

   1. Understanding bodies: Fat distrubution
   2. Height and how it affects the rest of the body
   3. How to avoid ''same body'' syndrome
   4. Muscles, where are they ?
   5. Exercise: Draw bodies inside of the shapes (warmup)
   6. Exercise: Draw the same person, but in different bodies (at least 4 examples)

4. Upperbody parts

   7 lessons

   1. Male torso, shapes (soft, muscular etc)
   2. Female torso, shapes (soft, muscular etc)
   3. Chest, different kinds (differnt shapes, sizes, mastectony, scars etc)
   4. The belly, soft and muscular
   5. Angles and how they work?
   6. Connecting neck to the torso
   7. Exercise: What difference small lines make?

5. Limbs

   6 lessons

   1. Arms basics (proportions, fat distribution, muscles)
   2. Hands simplified
   3. Legs basics (proportions, fat distrubion, muscles)
   4. How to draw feet
   5. Bodies with disabilities: limb differences (amputations, prosthetics)
   6. Exercise: use references with simple poses to draw the whole body (5 references)

6. Bodies in static poses and in motion

   7 lessons

   1. Standing, laying, sitting pt.1
   2. Standing, sitting, laying pt.2
   3. Jumping, running, playing sports
   4. Poses under unusual angles
   5. Exercise: draw bodies in 30 sec
   6. Exercise: draw the same poses in 2 minutes
   7. Exercise: draw the same poses in 10 minutes

7. Stylization and differnt art materials

   7 lessons

   1. How to exaggerate? Break the anatomy?
   2. How to show emotions with the pose?
   3. Shadows, how to use them?
   4. Compare art mediums, how they affect the results
   5. Use museums for additonal exercise
   6. Exercise: use diffent art materials to draw the same pose (at least 3)
   7. Exercise: go to a museum or online museum, and draw poses of your choice

8. Final assignment

   3 lessons

   1. Collect references, simplify them (each 30 sec)
   2. Exercise: fill out A3 paper with different poses, you can break the anatomy
   3. Draw one pose on different sized paper, e.g. A5,A4, A3 (any materials, note the differences)

9. Bonus materials

   2 lessons

   1. My favourite tools
   2. Sketchbook zine