Dec 20, 2024
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IN THIS ARTICLE
1
Introduction
WRITTEN BY
Clayton Barton
Founder · Instructor · Mentor
A professional comic book artist and educator, Clayton has helped thousands of artists around the world improve their skills and bring their ideas to life through comics.
“Talent is merely the motivation to master that which you’re most passionate about.”
— CLAYTON BARTON
FIGURE DRAWING
MEASURING OUT
PROPORTIONS
Clayton Barton
Dec 20, 2024 · 1 min read
In this drawing lesson you'll learn a practical way to measure out the proportions of your characters as you draw!
FIGURE DRAWING
How to 'Un-Stiff' Your Characters
In this lesson we'll discuss the important role of gesture, keeping your poses loose, and feeling the movement, weight and momentum of your characters as you draw them. By the time you've completed this lesson, you'll have all you need to push the poses of your characters just that little bit more, while avoiding unnatural, robotic looking movements.
By Clayton Barton · Jan 25, 2026
FIGURE DRAWING
The Rayman Method
In this lesson you'll learn is a very simple, 'join the dots' approach for foreshortening that not only works, but actually makes it fun. The Rayman Method takes out all the complication, leaving you with a more intuitive way to plot out your character's pose, with foreshortening in mind, right from the get go. By the end, you'll be pushing the limits of depth and dimension in your characters, as they leap off the page with more 3D'ness than ever before.
By Clayton Barton · Aug 19, 2025
FIGURE DRAWING
Range of Motion
Throughout the demonstration, I'll show you the differences between regular poses, and poses that are pushed to the absolute limit. Then we'll look at broken poses, how they end up like that and the best way to avoid them. We'll look at range of motion for each part of the human body so that you have a solid understanding of it's potential and limitations in posing!
By Clayton Barton · Aug 15, 2025
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