Figure Drawing Master Class: Lessons in Life Drawing

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How to draw like the masters!

With Figure Drawing Master Class, you will discover the secrets to creating masterful figure drawings through examples of Old Master drawings, as well as Dan Gheno's own beautiful drawings, demonstrations and diagrams.

This take-home course covers everything you need to put yourself on the fast-track to successful figure drawing.

Inside you'll find:

   • The basics of training your hand to draw
   • Gesture drawing lessons
   • How to draw heads and hands
   • How to accurately compose your figures
   • Keys to replicating the subtle details in the posture of the head to suggest emotion
   • The basics of human proportions
With tips, tricks and historical references, the drawing instruction inside will help you with all the critical skills you need to travel your own journey through successful figure drawing and improve your drawings for years to come.



   • Learn to draw all aspects of the human figure with diagrams, demonstrations and Old Master drawings
   • More than 120 drawings by Old Master artists including Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Rembrandt
   • Includes 5 step-by-step demonstrations to reinforce the key concepts of figure drawing

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Charlotte Emms
November 25, 2023
OMG........loooovee itttty
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About the author

Dan Gheno is a New York artist whose work can be found in many private and public collections including the Museum of the City of New York, The New Britain Museum of American Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. He teaches figure drawing and painting at the Art Students League and the National Academy School of Fine Arts, both in New York City and is a professor emeritus at the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts in Connecticut. His artwork and writings have appeared in various magazines and books, including American Artist, Drawing Magazine and The Artist's Magazine. He was the art critic for the Santa Barbara News and Review in the 1970s. To learn more, please visit dangheno.net.

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