The Human Machine With Steve Huston
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/the-human-machine/
In this lesson, instructor Steve Huston will teach you an approach to simplifying human anatomy for more effective artwork. After a refresher on the concepts of gesture and structure, you will learn a functional and constructive approach to human anatomy.
Week 1: Intro to the Human Machine with Steve Huston
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/the-human-machine/?course=604040
In this first part Steve Huston will teach you an approach to simplifying human anatomy for more effective artwork. After a refresher on the concepts of gesture and structure, you will learn a functional and constructive approach to human anatomy that focuses on simplifying the complexity of the figure and creates an effective narrative and aesthetic result. Steve will lecture, demonstrate from a live model, and teach you how to simply break down the rib cage.
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/constructing-the-human-figure/
World-acclaimed artist, Steve Huston, tackles one of art’s most complex and elusive subjects: the human figure. Steve gives you an essential crash course of the structure, proportion, and gender variations of the figure. You will learn how to simplify and construct the figure from simple characteristic shapes and forms for more direct, readable, and powerful figurative art.
World-acclaimed artist, Steve Huston, tackles one of art’s most complex and elusive subjects: the human figure. Steve gives you an essential crash course of the structure, proportion, and gender variations of the figure. You will learn how to simplify and construct the figure from simple characteristic shapes and forms for more direct, readable, and powerful figurative art.
In this lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston analyzes and explains the three-dimensional structures of the eye and approaches to rendering those structures in painting using an example from John Singer Sargent. You will learn how to work with light and shadow areas, how to render the roundness of the eyeball and how to construct the bony orbital area around the eye for beautiful and convincing eyes in your paintings.
Week 2: The Shoulder Girdle with Steve Huston
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/the-shoulder-girdle-simplified/?course=604040
In the second part of Introduction to Anatomy for Artists, with Steve Huston, you will learn how to simply and understand the mechanics of the most complex structure in the body: the shoulder girdle. From diagrams, lectures, and illustrations from a life model, you will practice and gain confidence not only recognizing the anatomy of the shoulder but also drawing or painting it.
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/the-structure-of-the-head-in-painting/
In this lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston demonstrates practical approaches to paint the head, with an emphasis on solid three-dimensional structure. You will learn how to construct basic three-dimensional volumes with correct proportions and in correct perspective and how to paint the features of the face into those constructions. Steve will also show you different characteristic shapes and volumes which can be used in your head paintings.
https://www.nma.art/videolessons/the-structure-of-the-head-in-painting/
In this lesson world-renowned painter Steve Huston demonstrates practical approaches to paint the head, with an emphasis on solid three-dimensional structure. You will learn how to construct basic three-dimensional volumes with correct proportions and in correct perspective and how to paint the features of the face into those constructions. Steve will also show you different characteristic shapes and volumes which can be used in your head paintings.
World-renowned painter Steve Huston will analyze a painting by Swedish artist Anders Zorn and demonstrate Zorn’s approach to color. You will learn how to employ the “Zorn palette” to your work, using only browns for your shadows and working with warm and cool colors. You will also learn the some of the distinguishing features of outdoor and indoor colors, styles, and palettes.