Lon Brauer/Garin Baker Combo

The Abstract and The Intuitive Two excellent artists showing you how to drastically improve your figure painting skills   Lon Brauer: Abstract Figure Painting Garin Baker: Intuitive Figure Painting   Simplify complex and daunting figure and portrait subjects by recognizing their “hidden” shapes. Watch as master artist Lon Brauer shows you in great detail how he creates his award-winning paintings. Figure painting can be very complex… But there’s a way to make it simpler. The trouble most novice artists are struggling with is not knowing how to SEE shapes in the subject or photo reference. The shape is, ultimately, the core of all visual imagery. That means the “secret” to making even the most daunting of subjects 10x easier to paint is quite simple: You find the “hidden” shapes in the subject or photo reference. When you can take something as complex as a photo reference and break it down into basic shapes … painting essentially becomes almost as easy as painting by numbers. It