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Learn to loosely draw the human form and breathe life into your art through colour, shadow and light.

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About the Artist and the Course


Pedro is a professional artist and art teacher from Lisbon, Portugal. He is an urban sketcher at heart, and his art connects him to places and people, allowing him to see the world differently.


Pedro believes everyone can learn how to draw. He emphasizes that it's more about learning how to see than anything else, and he can teach anyone, regardless of their level or experience.

Figure Drawing Fundamentals


Part I: Bare Basics


In this part, learn about the body, proportions, facial and hand gestures, and depicting different body types from various angles.

Part II: Bringing Your Figure to Life


In this part, create full, coloured pieces with watercolour. Add shape and dimension, convey clothes, hairstyles, and textures.

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Just bring your curiosity. No prior experience required.

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What will you learn

Proportions of the Human Body

Learn how to visualise and sketch a human figure. By using simple sketching tools - paper, pencil, pen and ink- you will grasp the basic proportions and structure of the human body.


By the end of this class, you'll be able to sketch simple figures and casual postures.

Fleshing out the Body

Learn how to place body mass around your skeleton sketches. Discover the strong and weak spots of the body, their functions, and how that matters when sketching the shape of the human figure so that you learn by observing people around you.


By the end of this class, you'll be able to confidently sketch a dynamic human figure of any size or proportion in different postures and actions, regardless of body type.

Head and Expressions

Learn how to sketch human heads from different angles and with different expressions.


By the end of this class, you'll be able to grasp and draw the shape of a head regardless of its angle while making it look alive and interactive with just a few quick lines.

Hands and Gestural Expressions

Learn how to lay human hands on paper in different positions and actions. You will get familiar with a human hand's basic elements and articulations, filling them with volume and sketching them in any posture and at different distances/scales.


By the end of this class, you'll be able to understand the connections and articulations within a human hand and represent them in different actions and postures.

Bringing it together: Full human figure

Progress from the initial skeletons to sketching a full human figure with volume and expression. Practice different speeds of execution to challenge your comfort zone while tackling both resting and moving figures. In your sketches, you will experiment with a few shadows for extra volume and expression.


By the end of this class, you'll be able to integrate body, head and hand expressions to create a lively human figure in a real-life setting.

Creating Shape and Dimension with Watercolour

Learn how to create volume and shading in human figures with ink and watercolour. Bring out the essentials of a human figure by simplifying detail and investing in shape, volume and body expression.


By the end of this class, you will be able to apply shading with hard edges and gradient watercolour washes effectively to create dynamic human figures.

Clothing

Learn how to capture the shapes and shades of fabric in different clothing items, helping to convey movement and dynamism to your human figures. Familiarize yourself with simple but effective techniques, both with ink and with watercolour, that will level up your people sketching.


By the end of this class, you will be able to draw and paint believable clothing items that will grant expression to your human figures.

Hair

Learn how to portray the intricate details, textures and shading of hair using ink sketching and watercolour techniques. Build on your previously acquired knowledge of sketching heads and shading, and add hair variation and flow to your sketching toolkit.


By the end of this class, you will be able to skillfully capture a variety of hairstyles and textures with different shapes, volumes and shading, using ink outlines and watercolour washes, creating a simplified yet believable portrayal of hair in your sketches.

Making a Scene

Learn how to deal with many interacting characters in the same sketch, detailing them adequately according to scale, distance, body posture and expression.


By the end of this class, you will be able to create an ink and watercolour scene with people interacting with each other and their environment, break down details to the strictly necessary, and convey human emotions and expressivity to the scene.

What are others saying

price option <div class="editor-content"><p><span style="font-size: 1.125rem">Nana R</span></p></div>

Nana R

"My final piece of work for Pedro Loureiro's wonderful course about figure drawing. l know - the proportions of the people are not correct but l had a lot of fun drawing them. I learned so much in Pedro‘s course. Thank you Pedro for your classes."


price option <div class="editor-content"><p><span style="font-size: 1.125rem">Margaret N</span></p></div>

Margaret N

"Love watching this and sketching in time with this guy; doesn’t create picture perfect  images but it is fast furious fun - with a believable ( in my case as a complete novice - semi believable  figure)  by the end of the lesson. I’m gob smacked 🤣🤗"


price option <div class="editor-content"><p><span style="font-size: 1.125rem">Such Wild Love</span></p></div>

Such Wild Love

"Thanks Pedro Loureiro for a great course. I found both the skeletons and loomis heads really helpful. One thing that surprised me -- thighs are much wider, and ankles much narrower than I realized!"


price option <div class="editor-content"><p><span style="font-size: 1.125rem">Theodora B</span></p></div>

Theodora B

"I have learned a lot from Figure Drawing courses and have improved a lot. Learning how to achieve a more realistic point of balance was obviously needed by me! I will look forward to more of your classes."

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