Figure Drawing Practice Assignment: Apply What You've Learned

Time to practice. Four poses, four minutes each.

This lesson is part of the Figure Drawing Course - a complete free course teaching you to draw the human body from scratch.

Start the timed assignment: don't you dare hit play with having your drawing supplies ready to go, we are talking pencil in hand and ready to draw!

The Assignment

4 poses × 4 minutes = focused practice

You'll get a 20-second warning before each pose ends. When you hear the notification sound, wrap up and move to the next pose.

Need more time? Pause the video. Take as long as you need. This is YOUR practice.

This Is NOT About Finished Drawings

Don't try to render. Don't add shading. Don't chase details.

Focus on structure:

• Tube of the torso
• Long gesture line
• Happy medium on the short side
• Center line placement
• Left vs right space comparison (especially three-quarter views)
• Pinch side angles

That's already a lot. Especially if you're new to figure drawing.

The Process for Each Pose

1. Find the longest sustained curve (stretch side)

2. Rough in the short side (find happy medium, not every bump)

3. Add center line (measure space left and right)

4. Find the pinch (where does compression happen?)

5. Check your work (are proportions reasonable?)

Done. Move to next pose.

Not Happy With Your Drawing?

Do it again.

Then do it again. Then do it again.

Repetition builds skill. One attempt teaches you something. Ten attempts make it stick.

What Success Looks Like

You're successful if you:

• ✅ Identified the longest sustained curve
• ✅ Found the tube structure
• ✅ Located the center line
• ✅ Measured space on both sides
• ✅ Found the pinch angle

Doesn't matter if it's "pretty." Structure matters. Gesture matters. Process matters.

Pretty comes later, after you've done this 100 times.

Download the Reference Images

[Link to download 4 reference poses - if you're providing them]

Or use your own references:

• Pose reference websites
• Figure drawing apps
• Art model books
• Screenshot from videos

After the Assignment

Watch the next lesson where I complete the same assignment. See my process, my mistakes, my decisions.

Compare your work to mine. Not to judge yourself, but to learn. What did I do differently? What worked? What can you steal?

The Real Assignment

The real assignment isn't these 4 poses.

The real assignment is doing this every week.

Four poses. Four minutes each. Focus on structure. Repeat until it clicks.

That's how you get good.

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