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Figure Proportions Getting You Frustrated? Let's Get Proportional! disney animation disney animation artist disney traditional animation draw without fear draw without judgement dynamic figure drawing figure drawing demo no-stress figure drawing proportions for figure artists understanding human proportions Nov 16, 2025

Enjoy Mike's latest YouTube video where he talks about and demostrates drawing human figure proportions -  a constant theme among people who draw the human figure, and usually as a source of frustrati...

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Behind the Scenes: The Making of the online course: 'Static To Dynamic: 7 Sketching Principles That Bring Your Figure Drawings To Life' disney animation drawing demonstration online figure drawing course phone harness static to dynamic Nov 07, 2025

Mike talks about how he filmed himself while sketching the demo drawings which illustrate each of the 7 Dynamic Figure Sketching Principles for the online course 'Static To Dynamic: 7 Sketching Princi...

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Perfection Paralysis Getting You Down? disney animation artist disney traditional animation draw without fear draw without judgement dynamic figure drawing figure drawing figure skeetching perfection paralysis tradition of loose figure drawing Nov 07, 2025

When you try to draw the human figure in a technically accurate way, in other words, trying to 'copy' the figure pose, the result can be disappointment with the results that leads to frustration and e...

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Get To Know Your Sketching Hero! disney traditional animation disney's nine old men dynamic figure drawing figure drawing hand-drawn animation marc davis tradition of loose figure drawing Oct 31, 2025

When your motivation to sketch the human figure is low, turn to one of your sketching heroes/heroines for inspiration. Increase your motivation and interest even more by getting to know who they were ...

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Are Your Figure Drawings Suffering From Stiff Manikin Syndrome? disney animation artist draw without fear dynamic figure drawing kinaesthetic experience think action not things tradition of loose figure drawing walt stanchfield Oct 31, 2025

In this video former Disney animation artist Mike Wiesmeier explains why figure drawings often look rigid, and how to make your figure drawings more dynamic by thinking about and focusing on specific ...

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To Erase Or Not To Erase? Mike Discusses the Benefits of Erasing with Confidence disney animation artist draw without fear erasing lines leads to confidence mistakes in drawing are goo tutorial about erasing lines video content Oct 28, 2025

Former Walt Disney animation artist Mike Wiesmeier debunks the idea that erasing pencil lines in drawings is undesirable, and give several reasons instead why it is a positive and important part of th...

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