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    Do you want to improve your life-drawing but can’t get to a class or get anyone to pose for you?

    Want to do life drawing in the privacy of your home or studio?

    Then learn to draw human poses with these great modelling mannequins from Bandai which were sent to me by http://bodykundolls.com for review. I have not been paid and all views are my own.

    Wooden mannequins are great for quick poses, but these Body Kun and Body Chan figures are much more real, pose-able and easier to understand and sketch for body shapes and posture.

    In this video I unbox the two models of the S.H. Figuarts Gray DX Set – Kun means boy and Chan means girl in the Japanese honorific system. Then I show how to photograph/print/trace and create anime style artwork and finally show how to use as normal life drawing models to create your own style drawings and illustrations.

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  • Drawing is a skill you can learn. You may need some talent to create Art, but drawing is a skill – and you already did a load of practice and learning about it when you were a kid!

    Like learning the piano or a sport, you need to practice, but it can sometimes be hard to get started.

    Make things easy on yourself by always having a sketchbook and pencil ready and make a window template like I show you how in this video. That way you only need to do mini-drawings – far less intimidating than having to fill the whole page!

    Use the template for pattern practice, thumbnail sketches and story or idea plans. Click the image below to download the A6 Thumbnail Template.

  • Would you like to improve your drawing skills by drawing less each day?

    Would you like to speed up your drawing abilities?

    Well, you can – and you can do it one inch at a time! An inch?!

    In my last video you will have seen me talking to professional illustrator, John Shelly.
    I noticed recently, in my Instagram stream, that he was doing 1 inch drawings every single day. They are witty and beautifully executed black-and-white drawings that are only 1 inch square.

    In this video I showed you how to make a template for drawing practice sketches in your sketchbook. You can make a template for one inch drawings to make it easier to start drawing.

    1 inch drawings are a brilliant way of starting and finishing a drawing. Often, a blank page is so intimidating that we never actually start drawing, or if we do, we get so tired filling a whole page that we never finish the drawing. By drawing just a 1 inch, square drawing you are committing to something small that won’t take too long, something you can probably finish in your tea break – something, even, that you could do every day to post to your social media stream.