Copyright 2006 Todd Harris
You have a love for the arts. You know you want to be an artist. You know you want an art career, so that you can do what you love and get paid for it. You have talent and creativity. You are motivated. You want to grow artistically. Now what? Mastering the ability to draw the human figure is the one thing that you can do to get you closer to your goal of a winning art career.
You can make money doing what you love. Yes, you can actually get paid for something like drawing all day. With practice, determination, and learning to draw the human form, you can do it.
Drawing the human form is key in many art careers. Let’s take game design for example…Normally, you wouldn’t think you need to know the human form when designing games, right? Wrong! Game designers need to have a good understanding of the human figure for characters, gesture, and scene development. Character design is a major part of game design. Okay, you want to be a freelance artist. Well, the human figure is imperative here as well. Without this knowledge, your paintings or sketchings will look weak, amateuristic with beginner’s mistakes, and just plain wrong. All artists can benefit in their skills and their careers by mastering the human form.
Here are 4 great reasons to master the human form and learn the figure now.
• Get an art career- Artists that master the human form and figure are much stronger candidates for an art job than someone without a strong skill-set in drawing the figure.
• Greater Artistic Knowledge- You will have a greater knowledge of the human form and figure and be able to express these through your art more fully.
• Figure Drawing all important in different genres- It is the single most skill that you can take from one genre to another. From doing caricatures, to portraits, to game design, to sketching faces, to illustration, and more, figure drawing will enhance your many career opportunities and open the door more than any other drawing skill.
• Make More Money- Artists who can master the human form open the door to much more revenue as they are diverse in the marketplace.
Studying and mastering the human form is a difficult task, but the rewards are plentiful. Combining masters techniques with your determination will enable you to reach the rewards previously mentioned. The key to mastering figure drawing lies in your passion for art and never give up attitude, mixed with skillful techniques straight from the masters themselves.
Explode your career opportunities by taking advantage of the advice and master the human form now. You’ll be glad you did.
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Todd Harris is a master artist who is currently working as a concept art director for a multi-billion dollar corporation. He is trained in the Florence Academy Method. Learning2draw.com is a resource based website devoted to aspiring artists wishing to master figure drawing. Visit www.learning2draw.com to get tips, tricks, and techniques to master the human form, plus sign up for a free newsletter jam-packed full of information on drawing and art.
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