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Dylan’s Digital Art & Sketchbook

by Matthew | Jun 28, 2025 | Sketchbook Videos | 0 comments

They, Them, Their – Dylan is back, sharing work from my Perspective class as well as their sketchbook from Gesture Drawing. They were enrolled in my Foundation Drawing course during the 2023–24 academic year and recently completed my Perspective for Backgrounds class in May 2025.

While Dylan is certainly talented, what stands out most is their work ethic—they’re one of the hardest working students I’ve had the pleasure of teaching. That dedication is clearly reflected in the growth and quality of their digital art. I hope you enjoy exploring both their detailed digital pieces and their expressive gesture sketches.

Dylan’s Website
dylangbaddeley.com

Dylan’s Instagram
@dylaniousss

SVA Animation:
@svabfaanimation

Matt’s Website
MatthewArchambault.com

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Figure Drawing Livestream

by Matthew | Jun 20, 2025 | The Blog | 0 comments

Are you into drawing the figure? If so this livestream class is perfect for you. Grab a pencil and draw along with me. In this livestream I walk you through how i get started drawing a figure from a photo.

Throughout the lesson I offer up various drawing techniques that will give you options for drawing the figure.

How To Draw The Figure In Ten Minutes

by Matthew | Apr 7, 2020 | Drawing Tutorials, The Blog | 1 comment

Well, here we are in this strange situation, Covid-19. I have basically turned off the news and have resorted to watching Tiger something on Netflix.

I have been super busy with this whole live class thing. Primarily teaching my college classes on Zoom. I have also been teaching live classes to members of DTO every Saturday.

Come mid to late April I will be teaching live classes to non-members of Drawing Tutorials Online. I’ve been working out the kinks in recording on Zoom. The quality is not great.

In the meantime I wanted to share with you this gesture drawing. I think you will most certainly get something out of watching this short figure drawing tutorial.

Please let me know if you have any questions about my technique.

Thank you so much for taking time to stop by and visit. Stay safe.

How To Draw A Ten Minute Gesture Of The Figure

by Matthew | Feb 11, 2020 | Drawing Tutorials, The Blog | 2 comments

I just recently added a new figure drawing to the members area of Drawing Tutorials Online. This course is title Figure Drawing Class Exercises.

There are so many more diverse ways of teaching in the classroom versus online. The options for creativity in the classroom is endless. You can incorporate the student in activities you just cannot do online.

The purpose of this course is not to complete the perfect drawing, quite the contrary. The purpose of this course is to share with you many of the short style twenty minute exercises completed in class.

The drawing in the video below is the type of drawing I have my students do often in the classroom. A simple top to bottom line/gesture drawing of the model using minimal shape.

The goal of this exercise to gain confidence by constantly drawing the figure from head to toe in ten minutes. Starting again, starting another one, and then another one. Kind of like doing drills.

Thank you so much for taking the time to watch this video. Make sure you get to a life drawing class and draw some quick ones. Don’t be perfect, just have fun.

How To See Gesture

by Matthew | May 20, 2017 | Video Critiques | 1 comment

This video will teach you how to see the gesture of just about any pose. It’s important to be able to see through complicated fabric folds. Fabric certainly will mask your ability to see the clean gesture lines within a figure.

You want to see gesture from the top of the figure to the bottom. Seeing what I like to call “Long Gesture” is crucial to drawing figures that have grace and flow.

Without gesture what you have is a stiff figure drawing. One technique that can really help you is the “Opposite C” technique. The “Opposite C” technique provides you with a physical way to draw the natural flow of the human body.

If you need help with your figure drawings consider a membership to Drawing Tutorials Online. Through our weekly video critiques we can help you to see the gesture in just about any pose that you try to draw.

Thanks so much much for visiting our blog. Enjoy the video below.

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