Hey everybody, in this final video lesson, I'm going to be taking everything that we just covered in the four previous lessons. And I'll be tying it all together, I'm going to be sketching a full female character, while also talking about the gesture of the overall pose, as well as basic proportions. At the end of the video, I'm also going to take the sketch and tighten up the liner so that way you guys can get a sense of how I take the rough sketch and bring it to the completed finished liner. Also, stay tuned for the end and we'll be discussing the class project for you guys to do as well. Thank you guys so much. And with that being said, let's do this.

Okay, let's go ahead and sketch the full female figure. First, we're going to begin with the line of action to show the central movement of the torso. Keep in mind that this pose that we're sketching is going to have most of the weight placed on the right leg, meaning At the hips are going to be tilted slightly with less weight placed on the left foot. We're then going to lightly rough out the overall gesture of the pose before we even start to build the forms and muscle structures. Because as I always say, forms follow gesture and you want to make sure the gesture of the pose is looking smooth and fluid first before moving forward so that way your pose doesn't look stiff and rigid. Now before moving on any further, if there's any parts of the previous video lessons that are still giving you a bit of trouble, you can absolutely go back through and re watch them as many times as you need to get the concepts down before moving forward to sketching the full pose.

But if you've got everything nailed down, let's continue. After we've finalized the overall gesture of the pose, start constructing the forms and muscle structures in the torso with the ribcage, breasts, shoulders, abdominals and hips. All of which we covered in the torso lesson of this course. After the torso is set, move up to the head and build the traps neck and then the head itself, and the facial features using everything that we learned in the first lesson of the course, talking about the head and facial features. One thing that I highly recommend doing in order to expand your knowledge of human anatomy and poses is to study drawing a lot from different reference photos. A few sites that I like to use most are Pinterest, and quick poses calm and this will allow you to get a lot more practice in and really diversify your palette of different action poses and dynamic positions of the female figure and of the different limbs as well.

After that, begin to draw the arm muscles along with the hands. And again, make sure that the gesture of the arms is smooth and fluid first before going in and building the muscle structures. All right, and then the last area we're going to cover here is the leg muscles and the feet. So again, remember that forms follow gesture and we want the gesture of the legs especially to be nice and smooth and fluid before we begin adding in the muscles Okay, and now what I'm going to do here is measure out the entire pose in head lengths. So, a fully grown adult female should stand at around seven and a half headlights tall. So I'm just going to trace over the sketch I just did with red and I'm going to outline the head and then take that and copy and paste it several times so that we can accurately measure out the height and make sure that everything is proportionally correct.

Now that we've got the full pose sketched out, I'm just going to take that and then trace over it with clean line art so that way you guys can see how I typically take the rough sketch once it's completed, and then move forward with cleaning up the completed line art. Another thing that I also recommend doing when you're cleaning up your line art is to vary the line weight subtly, meaning that you don't want to just stick to one single line weight to the entire drawing. You want to vary that in slight subtle ways from thick to thin. Especially the outermost lines though should be mostly thicker and then smaller, more detailed lines should be Be a little bit thinner. But again, you always want to try to vary that line weight to make the line art more interesting. amazing job.

Congratulations on completing this class. Thank you guys very, very much for watching. I really appreciate it. And I hope you learned a lot about drawing the female figure here. So just keep in mind when you're putting these concepts and principles into action yourselves, you may not get it down the first time, or the 10th time, or the 50th time or maybe not even the 100th time. But that's the point of artistic improvement.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. But if you can learn from your mistakes consistently, and persevere, you will see improvement eventually. So stick with it. Always try one more time and never quit. Now I got a little assignment for you. I want you to take everything that you learned in this course and use it to create your own female character.

You can be as creative as you'd like with the outfit and appearance, whether it's your favorite female superhero, or it can be a character that's completely made up, the choice is up to you. While going through the project, though, make sure you keep in mind the basics of proportion, gesture, and breaking all the forms down into simple and basic shapes, all of which we covered extensively in the course. After you've completed your project, please upload it and post to the class project gallery so that way myself and others can leave constructive feedback, upload it as a JPEG file, whether that means it's a digital file that you completed in Photoshop, or it's a a photo of your work that you completed traditionally. Thank you guys again so much. It really means a lot to me. And until next time, keep persevering.