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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Patrick J Jones Figure drawing is a fundamental skill for artists, but one of the hardest ...

In this drawing course students learn to draw as well as draw to learn. Students gain proficiency in the drawing process and develop analytical and expressive fluency in the language of the mark. The ...

Figure drawing is an excellent practice for artists to study human forms in various shapes and postures. Besides proportions, perspective, shading and all the fundamentals of drawing, figure drawing ...

Explore the human form through one of the most fundamental aspects of artmaking: drawing the figure. In this hands-on studio course, students will interpret the body's structure, proportion, and ...

Instructor Darren Kerr talks to Sabina Grogan about the proportions of the human face during a life drawing class at the Pacific Art League in Palo Alto. Photo by Magali Gauthier. On a recent evening ...