You Should Know this is not an academic figure drawing book that covers the basics of drawing the human form. This book explores and examines my personal creative approach to draw- ing, creating and stylizing the human figure. I could not have obtained any of this knowledge without having spent several hours in introductory figure drawing courses that covered basic proportions, volume, foreshortening, anatomy, light and shadow, etc., etc. which I do not cover in this book. There are dozens of fantastic books out there that cover these principles in a much more comprehensive way that have. In other words, don’t get bothered with this book if it feels a little light on basic instruction - I didn’t design it that way.

Ryan Woodward began his career in 1995 as an animator for Warner Brother’s Feature Animation. Over the years, he has worked as an animator, EFX animator, Concept Designer, Storyboard Artist and Animatic Artist. He has worked for Sony Pictures, Cartoon Net-work, Walt Disney Studios, Marvel Entertainment and DreamWorks Pictures on films such as Space Jam, The Quest For Camelot, The Iron Giant, Osmosis Jones, Spider-man 2, Spider-man 3, Where The Wild Things Are, Ironman 2 and Cowboys & Aliens (2011). Ryan has produced and directed 4 short films that have played in over 30 film festivals worldwide. Since 2003, Ryan has been a faculty member of the Animation program at Brigham Young University where he teaches storyboarding, figure drawing, and animation. Ryan has a BFA from Brigham Young University and an MFA from The Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Ryan is married to Tiffany Easterbrook Woodward and together they have three daughters .

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Previous volumes of Gesture Drawing books by Ryan Woodward:

Gesture Drawings And Sketchbook From Life (2004)

A book collecting Ryan’s gesture drawings organized from ten second gestures to 15 minute gestures - in addition are some exaggerative, creative, and refined drawings; and a small sketchbook section.

Gesture Drawings Vol. 2 (2006) A small collection of a variety of gesture drawings assembled from Ryan’s gesture drawing class in 2006.