4 Easy Steps To Finally Conquer Foreshortening

[@SamunaiAisuru]

Thank you Kenzo! I love the emails I'm receiving about these videos you're putting up. They somehow always include the subject I'm struggling with/interested in/in need of attention. I don't know how you do it, but it helps me to understand many things in the overall picture. But boy, as a budding fresh plant artist, its a long and steep climb with many different side routes that will, hopefully, converge into a single point at the top; me being able to draw and take (almost) everything into account! 👩‍🎨✏

[@JH-pe3ro]

One of the things that helped me start using forms correctly to construct parts of the figure was to try to draw a Slinky in various positions. What I discovered was that a lot of the complexity in organic figures doesn't come from a box or cylinder, but from a hinge form that connects two boxes or cylinders together and fills in gaps between them. A lot of the difference in approaches to figure mannequins comes from these hinges, and how the hinge is defined also defines an overwhelming amount of the proportion in 3D space; addressing those areas separately from the mass of each limb helps to describe the forms in a way that overlaps them in 2D without also intersecting them in 3D. That is, instead of drawing the entire arm out to the elbow as one cylindrical shape, focus on carefully observing the proportions of the armpit and the crook of the arm, draw the cylinder to fit inside those landmarks, then reuse the crook of the arm as the hinge point for another cylinder for the forearm out to the wrist. Only connect the cylinders at that point and leave a gap so that the cylinders themselves remain at different angles, helping to emphasize the shift in perspective between the two forms. Then, as necessary, indicate the remaining mass of the elbow to fill in the gap left over by the two cylinders. Drawing the Slinky from different views forces you to work through a lot of examples of hinges, and once it becomes natural to construct it in a way that looks accurate, adapting the same process to construct a figure that looks organic in perspective becomes much more straightforward. I still tend to separate the forms if I go too fast, but remembering this process usually does the trick for getting me to slow down and work through the perspective.

[@n.l.legault458]

Kenzo, you are an incredible teacher! I was a teacher for 34 years and am very discerning and dare I say, very picky about the courses or tutorials I watch. Yours are so clear, so well planned, and beautifully paced. Brilliant! Thanks again for your generosity in sharing these lessons with us.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Wow, thank you!

[@webeburnin333]

This was really great. You are an amazing Sensei, the way you analyze and explain drawing fundamentals just.. makes so much sense. Absolute gold channel and one of the best on KZbin. Thank you for your hard work!

[@TheDoho]

After watching this video I looked back on some prices I completed and I can see how my brain did exactly as you said. Shoulders were too far out of place because my brain was trying to break it apart. This will definitely be something I study this week.

[@Emmanuelboyd]

Thanks for the refresher video. The moment I start looking at the reference image and breaking it down. I realize immediately that I still use a bunch of tips from your older videos. Thanks for all the help breaking down foreshortening and gesture drawing

[@neonranger1192]

Your videos are one of the reason I am growing. Thank you Kenzo🤘

[@lovelifedrawing]

Happy to hear that!

[@Nonexistent_Music]

Same, I grew 1 foot since he posted this video

[@kasiako355]

Thank you for the great tips!💖 The idea of being a magician who wants to sell a 3d illusion on a flat paper really speaks to me!

[@ChrisD-83]

Another great video!!! I particularly liked the bit on selling the illusion by keeping your brush strokes in the same direction!

[@lovelifedrawing]

Glad you liked it Chris!

[@sadiqssolitude]

I almost quite drawing, thanks you Kenzo for changing my mind.

[@lovelifedrawing]

You can do it!

[@tessarivas6136]

Gracias Kenzo! Bringing the concept to the FORE and shortening the explanation for us. As Albert Einstein said: "IF YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND IT WELL ENOUGH. "

[@Retrofire-47]

“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity" -Terry Davis [Godking]

[@WiWillemijn]

Woow I am working on foreshortening this month! :D

[@AbiNomac]

Such a valuable channel. THANK YOU

[@wildfood1]

You're right, I avoid overlapping like the plague in my drawings : )

[@IamMaiLan]

thanks for this video. I really like when you build up a figure - looks so logical and simple... but doesn't feel this way when I'm drawing figures, yet... practice is the key, right 😉

[@lovelifedrawing]

Yes, exactly

[@randomfox6673]

Finally, just what I needed!

[@lovelifedrawing]

awesome :)

[@Mark_nobody3]

I have trouble drawing too, the trouble is the shape and how to bend it the correct way like folds on clothes, shapes on muscles on the human body and key poses or positioning

[@karisteinbacher4535]

Will try adding the circles on my extremities and see if it can keep them from looking like fat sticks. Can you give us a measurement regarding thigh circumference ,like you did with foot length, equalling the length of the forearm ?

[@adamkissel4168]

Glad to see you thinking outside the box Kenzo.. LOL Good stuff again mate.

[@lovelifedrawing]

Hehe thanks Adam!

[@falcongreens2570]

You are the best.

[@animacioneilustracion7883]

AWESOME!!!!

[@MrStrides]

aight finally the stuff I needed ;w ;

[@jameslabs1]

Thanks

[@tomtomasz9798]

stright lines in Foreshortening are easy - fun starts when there are pultipe angles in one shot ;p

[@petrichorrain6673]

Hey :) I remember seeing one of your videos a long time ago, where you spoke about the (i think) 5 stages of creativity in terms of how people learn to draw; I've been searching for this video but can't manage to find it. I wanted to know, what these 5 stages were exactly it started with symbolism followed by figuratively concretization ... ending with creativity. I remember a graph showing these stages. Can you please tell me the video or at least the name of the 5 stages? I would be eternally grateful

[@lovelifedrawing]

Yeah sure it’s the video you see when you go to our channel, on the front page of the channel

[@tomhighsmith]

The retina is also 2D, 3D is an illusion that you get through your 2 eyes. It all happens in your brain.

[@xtreame_here]

Should I pursue art now as ai is coming in action I'm kinda scared please tell me

[@isna2435]

Honestly don't try to make a career out of it. But you can still pursue animation or comic creation

[@xtreame_here]

@@isna2435 oh then what might be a good option I just passed 12th class and am looking at coding and game development too but yeah did wanted to go for animation

[@isna2435]

@@xtreame_here you can design visuals for the games too, it's a good choice. After you finish this degree, maybe study animation too so you could make better graphics

[@xtreame_here]

@@isna2435 yeah surely thanks mam btw jus curios what do you do?

[@isna2435]

@@xtreame_here I'm an engineering student and pursuing art as a hobby :)

[@medievalwebman2917]

6:00 admit it guys. You Like Personal Space🤣 I mean who doesn't???

[@Retrofire-47]

Would a more apt title not be "4 Easy Steps To Finally Conquer _Perspective_ "? Perspective projection is taking 3D [3 dimensions] and trying to create the illusion of that existing in 2D [2 dimensions]. foreshortening is just one way of conferring the 3rd dimension - by shortening subjects as they recede into the background. how is texture work foreshortening? it confers depth but does not involve manipulating the subject's size/lines in this way

[@Atomic-toons00]

His eyesbrows look very 4D