Proko Portrait Drawing Fundamentals Dvd Torrent
Honorato Winkel
The videos which are not on YouTube show full start to finish portrait drawings by Stan himself. He has both a male and female model pose used for two portrait drawing studies. You can watch every step to see how Stan creates these portraits from scratch.
In 2003, I began studying at the Watts Atelier of the Arts in Encinitas, California, where I got most of my arts training. After attending the Watts Atelier for many years, my focus shifted from animation to fine art painting. In 2007 I became a teacher at the Watts Atelier of the Arts and have taught drawing and painting classes on numerous topics such as portrait, figure, quick sketch, and plein air landscape.
For me specifically, it has led to a lot of important opportunities. The first major award I won was the Presidential Scholar award from the President of the United States. At that award ceremony, an executive from American Airlines saw my animation and decided to show it on all America Airlines flights. That gave me a lot of exposure and led to a few freelance projects.
Yes, formal education makes a difference. It can be a positive difference or negative difference. If you do decide to pursue a career in art, choose the school wisely. Most art colleges suck. I prefer the atelier system, smaller studios, and online courses over most accredited programs.
Are you a budding artist wanting to learn the fundamentals of figure drawing? Are you looking for high-quality demos to fine-tune your figure drawing skills? Wondering which online drawing course to go for?
They are educational and entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed myself while learning, as I am sure you will do too. He uses graphics, animations, and over-the-shoulder demos liberally and intelligently to help you understand concepts and information clearly.
Today, Proko is an established name. It is driven by a team of talented and dedicated artists working together to create awesome art instruction videos. The portrait drawing fundamentals course was their first, followed by many other drawing courses for you to learn from.
The course even covers basic things, like supplies to use, how to sharpen a charcoal pencil, and how to hold your pencil. This information can be found in the shading section of the course. For a beginner, such valuable tips and suggestions from an expert can make a huge difference.
Stan compares this to two hard balls in a sock, where the balls define the ovals and the sock represents the skin. Twisting and turning the balls demonstrates the twists, turns, sideways tilts, front-back leans, foreshortening of the torso, and the corresponding pinches and stretches of the skin. I found this analogy explained the bean concept very well..
The Bean balls are replaced with two boxes to add perspective and depth. The top box represents the ribcage and part of the shoulder, while the bottom box represents the pelvis and butt. This one change introduces the side, top, and bottom planes. Capturing the rotations, tilting, and leaning of the torso becomes a lot easier.
At this stage, you will begin to apply the principles of Robo Bean torso and 3D, structure drawing to the figure. It is like visualizing the pose as a mannequin and using imagination to add depth and volume to your figure drawings.
Choose a starting point, the head, or torso and continue down and across the body selecting and locking geometric blocks. For example, the ribcage is an oval, the hip a box with rounded sides, and the upper leg a cylinder, so on and so forth. The end of one block fits into the other. It is like joining the parts to form the whole.
Average human proportions can be used as a yard-stick to compare and adjust drawings accordingly. It is useful to know, for example, on an average, how big or small the human head is to the torso. Understanding proportions will certainly improve your sketches.
The figure drawing course, like all of Proko courses, has premium and free YouTube versions. The premium course is, understandably, lengthier and extensive with extended lessons, demo videos, and examples.
The extended lessons are often a lot longer and provide artists with detailed information on a specific topic. For example, the gesture lesson in the premium figure drawing course has an extra 30-minute quick-sketch segment.
Stan does, not one or two, but several demos for each concept. These demos mean you can draw along and learn through imitation. I have watched these videos over and over again and will continue watching forever.
After elucidating a concept, Stan moves on to applying the principles discussed. He begins drawing. The video shifts to an over-the-shoulder, close up view, with a split-screen, one half showing the pose and the other showing Stan drawing.
Quality-wise, these videos have high-resolution clarity. The figure drawing course videos are 720p standard HD MP4 files. Personally, I have no complaints with 720p. As far as clarity goes, 1280 x 720 pixels resolution is good enough to show details.
The Proko premium courses have to be purchased. They go way beyond the free video content to provide in-depth knowledge and information. Premium courses are often 3x longer and include extended lessons, bonus sessions, additional assignment examples, and extensive critique video recordings.
On buying a premium course, you will get access to a customized dashboard on the Proko website. Videos and other materials can be launched or downloaded from here. I had no issues logging into my dashboard to download the entire course material. It just made offline studying incredibly easy.
The Proko challenge is the ultimate test of creativity, ingenuity, and artistic skill. Every month Stan Prokopenko sets a task for artists. To give you an idea, April 2020 challenged artists to illustrate book scenes. Take a look at the winners. Understand the process. To participate follow @prokotv on Instagram.
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