Figure Drawing Lesson Series [4 of 8] – How To Draw The Human Figure In Perspective

Hi and welcome back to the 4th video in our lesson series on how to draw the human figure.

In case you missed the previous 3 videos, you can click on the links below to watch them…

Lesson 1 – The Figure Drawing Success Formula

Lesson 3 – How To Draw Perspective (As It Applies To Figure Drawing)

So just as a quick recap, in the last videos we covered the basics of human proportion and constructed a stick figure from scratch. Then we took a crash course in perspective and you draw your first 3D object in perspective.

In this video, we’re going to pick up from there and applied what we’ve learned so far to drawing a human figure in perspective.

I’m going to show you step-by-step how to draw a complete human figure in 3/4 view.

So, let’s go over to the drawing table and get started!

[PLEASE REFER TO THE ABOVE VIDEO FOR STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS]

Congratulation! You just draw a complete figure in 3/4 view that followed all the rules of perspective.

Now just practice this exercise a few more times and before you know, all this will become second nature to you.

So far, we’ve covered 2 huge parts of the figure drawing success formula – proportion and perspective.

In tomorrow’s lesson, we’ll cover the next element in the formula, which is… how to draw the manikin.

We’ll learn how to fill in our stick figure to make it look fuller and move one step closer to draw a realistic figure.

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9 Comments

professor on December 18, 2020 at 8:11 am

I have taught drawing the figure as a professor for years. This measuring with rulers and using mechanical pencils et al is the type of system that produces figure drawings which we see in portfolios all the time …and end up rejected because they are stiff and as mechanical as the system used. Learn to SEE these guidelines and structures WITHOUT drafting tools. THAT is how the masters lewrn to draw proprotion and perspective – and yes, it takes a lot longer but it produces artists vs. mechanical stuff like this.

Biraj on June 28, 2014 at 6:26 am

Your video is superb. Thanks .. it opened a new door for me.

Chris on December 4, 2013 at 2:36 am

V good

Anonymous on September 28, 2013 at 2:28 pm

This is really good. I like the way we are going step by step. Thanks.

Leigh on September 28, 2013 at 12:25 pm

Wonderful lesson Ethan, off to practice. Many thanks

sabir on September 26, 2013 at 6:28 pm

Hi Ethan

Thank you so much for your special contributions in Drawing, Really it get to work, now I working on it at the same time teaching it to my students.
Once more God Bless you.