In this course you'll learn to nail proportions from reference, using both measuring and your own trained eye. You'll learn comparative measuring with nothing but a pencil, so sighting, plumb lines, angles, units and negative shapes, which means you can draw accurately anywhere without hauling around a bag of gadgets. You'll learn to work big to small, starting with the shapes that decide your whole composition before you touch a single detail, and to see what's actually in front of you instead of the idea of an eye or a nose that's already sitting in your head.

The part that matters most is the feedback loop. You'll see how to overlay your drawing on the reference in Photoshop and check your own accuracy in about a minute. You stop waiting around for an instructor to tell you what's off. You just see it. Students get reference photos, a full portrait demo from first mark to finish, a second demo where I trust my eyeballs and only measure to double check, and critiques of real student work.

In this course you'll learn to capture any pose from any angle using rhythms, the flowing lines that connect the body parts into one unified idea instead of a pile of disconnected pieces. You'll break the head, neck, shoulders, torso, legs, arms, hands and feet down into their simplest rhythms, from the front, the back, the side, and the awkward in between angles that usually stop you cold. You'll learn to balance gesture with structure so your figures feel alive without turning into noodle people, and to place your lines with intention so proportions hold up even when you're drawing fast.

It's built around practice, not theory. You get example poses to draw from, rhythm templates to fall back on, demos at two difficulty levels, and honest critiques of real student work, so you can watch the mistakes you're making get fixed on the page.