📖 The Training Scrolls (YouTube Resources)

🛡 Begin your training with these guided studies from experienced sages

🔗 The Power of the Bean
🔗 Understanding Form with the Bean
🔗 The Bean Helps You Draw Figures
🔗 From Bean to Body
🔗 Using the Bean to Show Motion
🔗 Mastering the Bean Method
🔗 Dynamic Figure Drawing

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💡 Additional Training:

📜Line-Of-Action drills

📜Quickposes drills

💡Alternatives to the Bean
While the Bean is a trusted foundation for movement and fluidity, other disciplines exist for constructing the torso. Adventurers may find different methods more suited to their artistic style. Here are a few other "schools of magic" you may wish to explore:

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🔗The Robo-bean​

🔗The Mannequin Method

🔗The Spine & Ribcage Approach

​🔗The Pillow Method

Feel free to attempt the homeworks and challenges with these methods instead, and see how it compares with the classic bean!

🎯 Bonus Adventurer Challenges

For those who seek extra XP, test your skills with these side quests:

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1️⃣ Speed Challenge:

• Set a timer for 30 seconds and sketch as many bean forms in motion as possible.

• Focus on tilt, squash, and stretch to emphasize movement!

 

2️⃣Weight and Balance Trial:

• Draw a bean leaning, twisting, or reclining.

• Emphasize how weight shifts between the top and bottom of the form.

 

3️⃣ The Overlap Experiment:​

• Use two overlapping bean forms to create an interaction between characters.

• This will help you understand depth, foreshortening, and dynamic poses!

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📜 Final Guildmaster’s Words

"A warrior must know their armor as well as their sword. An artist must know their forms as well as their lines."

Many young adventurers stop at outlines, never realizing that the illusion of depth is what makes an image feel alive. But YOU, brave artist, are different.

With the knowledge of form, you now wield the power to sculpt your drawings into reality. Let this lesson be your foundation, and soon, perspective, shading, and composition shall bow before you!

The realm of art does not exist in two dimensions alone! A true adventurer does not merely draw—they sculpt with their pencil!

Last time, we trained in Basic Shapes—the flat foundations of every drawing. But a mighty artist sees beyond the surface and breathes life into their work through form.

⚔ A square becomes a cube.
🛡 A circle becomes a sphere.
🏔 A triangle becomes a pyramid.

These simple transformations hold the key to realism, depth, and structure in all artistic creations. Whether crafting creatures, landscapes, or armor for a noble knight, understanding form will elevate your skill to new heights.

 

🏆 Why Forms Matter

The Bean is one of the adventurer’s first tools in constructing figures with fluidity and motion. It acts as the keystone of the torso, allowing the upper and lower body to connect in a way that feels natural and dynamic.
 

🏹 The Bean prevents stiffness. Instead of rigid figures, using the Bean ensures that your characters feel alive and flexible.
 

⚔ It simplifies complex anatomy. The human torso is complicated—the Bean helps break it into two simple forms that can be posed and adjusted easily.
 

🛡 It teaches weight and balance. By tilting, twisting, or squashing the Bean, you instantly create a sense of gravity and motion.
 

🎭 Every heroic stance, every battle-ready warrior starts with The Bean! Master this, and the rest of the body will fall into place naturally.

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🎯 Your Training Mission (Interactive Homework Section!)

🛡 Objective: Master the Bean as the core of movement and form.

🛡 Draw 10 bean forms in various poses (twisting, leaning, stretching, running, jumping).

🛡 Experiment with overlapping and tilting the two main masses to create depth.

🛡 Post your bean sketches in Discord for guild feedback!

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💡 Bonus Quest: Bring Your Beans to Life!

• Turn your beans into small creatures! Give them eyes, tiny legs, and even arms or wings to embody the feeling each bean gives you.

• Are they brave little adventurers? Mischievous imps? Majestic spirits? Let your imagination take charge!

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🏆 Final Challenge: Prove Your Skill

📜 Once you’ve completed this lesson, showcase your work!

✅ Post your 3D transformations in Discord for feedback.
✅ Try taking one of your simplified 3D forms and turning it into a full drawing!
✅ Compare your before & after drawings to track progress.​​