Human and animals

Month 1: Understanding Form & Gesture

Week 1: Basic Forms & Proportions

📌 Goal: Train your ability to break down figures into simple shapes.

 Exercise: Draw cylinders, spheres, and cubes in different angles.

 Exercise: Simplify human and animal figures into basic geometric shapes.

 Exercise: Study the proportions of the human body—focus on the head, torso, limbs.

Week 2: Gesture & Dynamic Movement

📌 Goal: Capture energy and movement in quick sketches.

 Exercise: 30-second gesture drawings from photos or real life.

 Exercise: Exaggerate movement in figures to enhance dynamism.

 Exercise: Study action poses—sports, dance, animals in motion.

Week 3: Perspective & Foreshortening

📌 Goal: Understand depth and perspective in figure drawing.

 Exercise: Draw figures in different perspective views (bird’s-eye, worm’s-eye).

 Exercise: Foreshortening drills—draw arms, legs coming toward the viewer.

 Exercise: Sketch simple human poses using grids for better perspective.

Week 4: Memory Sketching & Composition

📌 Goal: Start drawing figures without direct reference.

 Exercise: Look at a pose for 30 seconds, then sketch it from memory.

 Exercise: Sketch crowds, overlapping characters to study relationships in composition.

 Exercise: Study silhouettes of figures—train your eye to recognize dynamic poses.

Month 2: Anatomy Foundations

Week 5: Human Skeleton & Structure

📌 Goal: Understand the bone structure that supports movement.

 Exercise: Study the skeleton and draw it in different poses.

 Exercise: Simplify bones into cylinders and basic forms.

Week 6: Muscles & Landmarks

📌 Goal: Learn how muscles wrap around bones.

 Exercise: Study muscle groups and how they stretch and compress.

 Exercise: Draw muscles in relaxed and flexed states.

 Exercise: Observe your own hands, arms, and legs—draw from life.

Week 7: Animal Anatomy Basics

📌 Goal: Learn how different species’ anatomy compares to humans.

 Exercise: Draw simplified animal skeletons.

 Exercise: Study the similarities in movement between humans and animals.

 Exercise: Sketch animals in motion—running, jumping, climbing.

Week 8: Expressive Faces & Hands

📌 Goal: Improve facial expressions and hand gestures.

 Exercise: Draw five different facial expressions daily.

 Exercise: Sketch hands in various gestures—grabbing, pointing, relaxed.

 Exercise: Study how emotions affect the entire body posture.

Month 3: Refining Figure Drawing Skills

Week 9: Dynamic Character Poses

📌 Goal: Make your poses feel alive!

 Exercise: Draw figures interacting—running, fighting, embracing.

 Exercise: Sketch fluid action poses inspired by martial arts or dance.

 Exercise: Push exaggeration to enhance storytelling.

Week 10: Clothing & Drapery

📌 Goal: Understand how clothing interacts with the body.

 Exercise: Draw clothed figures, observing how fabric folds.

 Exercise: Sketch heavy vs. light fabrics to see differences in movement.

 Exercise: Draw wind-blown fabric to study movement.

Week 11: Animal Movement & Expression

📌 Goal: Capture personality and movement in animals.

 Exercise: Study ears, tails, fur direction for expressive movement.

 Exercise: Compare human and animal gestures to find similarities.

Week 12: Foreshortening Mastery

📌 Goal: Perfect depth in your drawings.

 Exercise: Sketch figures reaching forward dramatically.

 Exercise: Study extreme angles in action shots—comic panels, photography.

 Exercise: Draw limbs twisting and bending naturally.

Month 4: Bringing it Together

Week 13: Freestyle Ink Drawing

📌 Goal: Develop confidence with ink like Kim Jung Gi.

 Exercise: Draw directly with pen—no pencil sketching first.

 Exercise: Practice contour line drawings to improve fluidity.

 Exercise: Create an ink study of an artist you admire.

Week 14: Gesture & Gesture Again!

📌 Goal: Make fast and intuitive drawing second nature.

 Exercise: Set a timer—draw as many dynamic poses as possible in 30 min.

 Exercise: Sketch athletes, dancers, people in motion.

 Exercise: Test yourself—draw the same pose at different angles.

Week 15: Animal-Human Hybrid Studies

📌 Goal: Mix the anatomy of different species for creative exploration.

 Exercise: Merge animal and human features for storytelling.

 Exercise: Compare how similar muscle structures function in both.

 Exercise: Study mythical creatures—dragons, centaurs, werewolves.

Week 16: Large Composition

📌 Goal: Build multi-character storytelling pieces.

 Exercise: Plan a scene with several characters interacting.

 Exercise: Experiment with layering depth—foreground, midground, background.

 Exercise: Push lighting, perspective, and composition for a dramatic effect.

Week 17: Life Drawing & Sketching in Public

📌 Goal: Improve your speed and accuracy in real-world settings.

 Exercise: Draw people in cafes, parks, or markets.

 Exercise: Capture gestures quickly—don’t focus on details.

 Exercise: Challenge yourself—10-second sketches!

Week 18: Dynamic Group Scenes

📌 Goal: Train your ability to handle crowded compositions.

 Exercise: Draw battle scenes, crowds, or a group conversation.

 Exercise: Focus on weight distribution—standing, sitting, carrying.

 Exercise: Experiment with camera angles and perspective shifts.

Week 19: Creative Experiments

📌 Goal: Explore different artistic influences.

 Exercise: Try different styles—cartoon, realism, stylized anatomy.

 Exercise: Mix mediums—charcoal, ink, digital.

 Exercise: Blend human and animal movements creatively.

Week 20: Masterpiece Challenge

📌 Goal: Create a large-scale freestyle composition combining everything learned.

 Exercise: Draw an entire human-animal action scene without references.

 Exercise: Push storytelling—use lighting, mood, and character interactions.

 Exercise: Finish with an inked version—no underdrawing!

🚀 Final Goal: By the end of these five months, you’ll have mastered human and animal anatomy,
trained muscle memory for gesture sketching, and developed confident freestyle drawing like Kim Jung
Gi.
ONLY FACES

Month 1: Foundations of Facial Structure

Week 1: Understanding Basic Head Forms

📌 Goal: Learn the structure of the head and proportions.

 Exercise: Draw heads using simple shapes (cylinder, sphere, box).

 Exercise: Study the Loomis and Reilly head construction methods.

 Exercise: Rotate the head in different angles—front, side, top-down.

Week 2: Perspective & Foreshortening

📌 Goal: Draw heads from extreme perspectives.

 Exercise: Draw heads in 1, 2, and 3-point perspective.

 Exercise: Foreshorten the head by drawing it in dynamic angles.

 Exercise: Look at photos and sketch heads at tilted angles.

Week 3: Planes of the Face & Light Studies

📌 Goal: Break faces into simple planes for better shading and form.

 Exercise: Study the Asaro head (basic planes of the face).

 Exercise: Draw faces with light coming from different angles.

 Exercise: Analyze how shadows fall on different facial structures.

Week 4: Memory Sketching Faces

📌 Goal: Train your mind to recall facial features without references.

 Exercise: Look at a face for 30 seconds, then sketch from memory.

 Exercise: Study famous portrait artists and analyze their approach.

 Exercise: Sketch simplified versions of people around you.

Month 2: Facial Features & Expression Mastery

Week 5: Eyes – The Window to Expression

📌 Goal: Improve your ability to draw realistic and expressive eyes.

 Exercise: Study different eye shapes and structures.

 Exercise: Draw eyes conveying emotions—anger, joy, sadness.

Week 6: Nose Structure & Depth

📌 Goal: Master the planes of the nose and placement on the face.

 Exercise: Draw noses from multiple angles.

 Exercise: Experiment with short and long noses in character designs.

 Exercise: Sketch noses in extreme lighting—overhead, side-lit.

Week 7: Mouth & Lips – Expression & Gesture

📌 Goal: Improve lip shapes and expressions.

 Exercise: Study the mechanics of smiling, frowning, and talking.

 Exercise: Draw lips with tension and relaxation.

 Exercise: Sketch extreme mouth gestures—laughing, yelling.

Week 8: Ears & Jawline – Refining Head Shapes

📌 Goal: Strengthen your understanding of ears and jaw structure.

 Exercise: Draw ears from different angles.

 Exercise: Sketch jawlines with varied shapes—round, square, sharp.

 Exercise: Create characters with exaggerated ear/jaw structures.

Month 3: Expression & Emotion

Week 9: Facial Muscle Studies

📌 Goal: Learn how facial muscles move during expressions.

 Exercise: Study diagrams of facial muscles in action.

 Exercise: Draw faces showing exaggerated muscle movement.

 Exercise: Sketch extreme expressions from movie scenes.

Week 10: Age & Face Variations

📌 Goal: Expand your visual library to draw different age groups.

 Exercise: Draw young, middle-aged, and elderly faces.

 Exercise: Study how wrinkles and sagging affect expressions.

 Exercise: Sketch babies with soft features vs. sharp adult faces.

Week 11: Stylization & Exaggeration

📌 Goal: Explore how to push facial features creatively.

 Exercise: Cartoonify a realistic face and analyze the differences.

 Exercise: Study stylized artists (Kim Jung Gi, caricature artists).

Week 12: Advanced Memory Training

📌 Goal: Draw detailed faces completely from memory.

 Exercise: Look at a face for 60 seconds, then sketch it blind.

 Exercise: Draw 5 faces from imagination each day.

 Exercise: Attempt large portrait compositions directly in ink.

Month 4: Speed Sketching & Freestyle Drawing

Week 13: Mastering Confident Lines

📌 Goal: Improve fluidity and avoid over-sketching.

 Exercise: Draw faces using single-stroke line confidence.

 Exercise: Sketch quick portraits under 5 minutes.

 Exercise: Use a brush pen to practice bold strokes.

Week 14: Gesture Faces

📌 Goal: Train facial energy and flow.

 Exercise: Gesture draw multiple faces in quick succession.

 Exercise: Capture dynamic facial movements in cartoons.

 Exercise: Sketch a face with only 10 strokes.

Week 15: Merging Features & Character Design

📌 Goal: Mix human facial features to create unique designs.

 Exercise: Combine different facial structures from multiple people.

 Exercise: Merge human and animal facial elements for creativity.

 Exercise: Create a unique character based on exaggerated features.

Week 16: Mastering Face Composition

📌 Goal: Place faces within storytelling compositions.

 Exercise: Draw a group of people interacting dynamically.

 Exercise: Experiment with lighting and emotion in portraits.

 Exercise: Make a full inked character sheet with expressive faces.

Week 17: Sketching From Life

📌 Goal: Strengthen observational skills.

 Exercise: Draw real people in cafes, parks, or family gatherings.

 Exercise: Capture quick face sketches under 2 minutes.

 Exercise: Try drawing someone without them noticing!

Week 18: Extreme Angles

📌 Goal: Master unconventional perspectives.

 Exercise: Sketch faces looking straight up and straight down.

 Exercise: Push extreme foreshortening in facial perspective.

 Exercise: Observe photography and replicate dynamic angles.

Week 19: Personal Style Refinement

📌 Goal: Lock in your preferred artistic direction.

 Exercise: Reflect on your strongest facial drawing techniques.

 Exercise: Test different styles—hyper-realism vs. abstraction.

 Exercise: Redraw an old portrait with your new skills.

Week 20: Final Masterpiece – Portrait Challenge

📌 Goal: Create a large-scale final portrait combining all skills.

 Exercise: Draw a highly detailed full-face portrait.

 Exercise: Push expression, lighting, and storytelling in your piece.

 Exercise: Create one freestyle inked portrait like Kim Jung Gi.

🔥 Final Goal: In 5 months, you’ll have mastered human facial proportions, memory recall, confident
lines, extreme angles, and stylized exaggeration—just like Kim Jung Gi’s intuitive approach.