If there is one thing that intimidates new artists, it’s this: how to draw people. Welcome to People Skills, a series of tutorials and assignments developed to help you get familiar with drawing humans and develop your people-drawing style.
In this series, we’ll learn how to draw faces: eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and hair, plus facial proportions and how to break the rules. We’ll learn how to draw expressions, to give our faces some emotion. And we’ll be learning how to draw bodies, starting with small parts like hands and feet and working our way toward body poses.
In this series, aimed at beginners, you’ll learn systems that will help you develop your OWN style of drawing people!
This is the first course in the People Skills series about how to draw humans and develop your people-drawing style. You will learn to observe facial features, break them down into their basic elements, and use them to draw stylized eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair. We'll also discuss facial proportion rules (and how to break them!) before putting everything together to draw a complete face in our own style!
Learn how to convey emotions and depict expressions when drawing faces! After finding your character's neutral face, you will explore 16 different expressions by manipulating facial features. Discover how a minor change in a feature can convey an entirely different emotion! Use these skills to make your work more engaging and story-telling - whether you're drawing humans, animals, creatures, or other characters.
To draw a full body, you need to know how to draw each part. In this course, you'll learn simple methods for drawing limbs and appendages, working from small to large. Through engaging videos and a variety of fun exercises and homework assignments, learn how to draw fingers, hands, arms, toes, feet, and legs!
This is the final course in the People Skills series! Now it's time to put it all together everything you've learned about drawing people. First, you'll learn about body proportion rules (and how to break them). After learning a simple method for studying and analyzing the body in various positions and actions, you'll be creating posed figures in no time!
