The second part of „The Courage to Draw“ series shows how to capture and draw dynamic figures using volumes and spatial representation techniques from Hokusai to present-day manga.

1. Manga drawing and storyboarding workshops
Marianna Poppitz
http://urbanplanetcomix.com/
The Courage to Draw:
Capturing Dynamic Figures.

3. Before you start to capture complex
movements, sit back and analyze
everyday life poses.

5. The better you understand how
volumes build a figure, the easier it
gets to draw more dynamic figures in
perspective.

7. Grasp a figure through
simplification: break its shape down
to volumes and you'll be able to
depict it.

9. Don't just clarify the volumes: make
the silhouette of the whole figure
stand out.

14. Use the volumes to seize and refine
facial features, follow the same logic
when adding surface layers like hair
and fabric. Make hair and tissue
follow the body's movement
beneath, and you'll enhance the
figure's depth.

18. The next level challenge: use your
visual camera to place the figure in
space, always in that motion from
simple volumes to complex shapes.

21. Make our fleeting world enter your
drawing, feel the movement and
enjoy it, like Hokusai did.

24. From sketchy scribble to fine lineart:
perspective draws us in, since we
live and move in space all life long.

26. From here, new challenges arise.
(tbc:
The Courage To Draw #3
Camera and Visual Storytelling

27. BIG THANKS to all participants of my workshops:
you keep inspiring me!
You'll find upcoming workshops on my website
urbanplanetcomix.com.
http://urbanplanetcomix.com/workshops/