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Learn how to draw dynamic human bodies, 

hands, and faces in difficult angles!

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Figure Drawing Resources

Drawing realistic people can be difficult, so we’ve made a beginner’s guide to figure drawing and anatomy, complete with videos, tutorials, courses, and live online classes.

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Figure Drawing Tutorials for Beginners: Getting Started 💪

First time figure drawing? Start by understanding human proportions, poses, structure drawing, and human anatomy. Then, practice your gestures and build speed and confidence with timed drawings!

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Why Learn Figure Drawing?

Whether you’re pursuing animation, illustration, or another visual arts career, you will need to know how to draw the human body! Figure drawing is an essential requirement for most art portfolios and a skill that many art students find challenging.

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The Ultimate Figure Drawing Course

Prefer to learn online with video lessons at your own speed?

Get our ultimate asynchronous course pack, designed for portfolio students. Learn Fei’s original GSL figure drawing techniques, plus get instructor and peer support on Discord!

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✍ Figure Drawing Programs - Live Lessons Online

Gain some serious skills in weekly virtual figure drawing classes and seasonal camps online for teens and adults!

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Accelerate your skills in our online Figure Drawing Camps for teens during winter and summer break. Get step by step instruction and actionable feedback from a professional artist.

Hybrid Program

Learn on your own time in this 6-week online program with weekly recordings from the recent seasonal camp, written feedback on assignments, and a final LIVE group critique session.

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Drawing Mentorship
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Mastering figure drawing is a common goal for portfolio students. Teens and adults can practice advanced figure drawing styles and techniques in a small group, and get coaching from an artist mentor.

Watch Fei give critiques and custom demos in Drawing Mentorship

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Why Learn Figure Drawing at Winged Canvas?

The best way to learn figure drawing is in small groups so you can get direct support, custom demonstrations and live personalised feedback from professional artists.

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Our live classes are limited to 6 students for Mentorship and 12 for Intensives.

With help from artist instructors, you’ll practice drawing realistic human anatomy and make sure your figure drawings are portfolio-ready!

🎯 Build your art portfolio
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Figure Drawing Resources for Teachers

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🍎 Anatomy Drawing Resources

Students can build their art portfolio for post-secondary or fulfil school certifications (such as SHSM Arts & Culture) in a live figure drawing workshop led by a virtual art instructor.

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Students will draw 1-20 min poses of a life drawing model guided by a professional artist (Grade 9-12)

Teaching figure drawing? Find handouts, worksheets, and videos
for your classroom on Teachers Pay Teachers:

Human anatomy worksheet

This printable handout is on basic human anatomy for drawing male, female, and child proportions.

Hand anatomy worksheet

This printable handout is on drawing different styles of hands and breaking down hand anatomy.

Foot anatomy worksheet.

This printable handout is on drawing different styles of feet, shoes and breaking down foot drawing shapes.

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