Sorry for the late reply. Before starting the gesture drawing, I would take some time to analyze the gesture pose so that when I start drawing I sorta have an idea.
Gestures and cylinder practice
Great work on your gestures and cylinders, the ellipses are looking good. Another thing you can try is to add some foreshortening to the cylinders, making the farther ellipse slightly smaller and placing the contour line slightly further away (farther section looks smaller than the closer section. For getting a more exact idea where and how that would look you can use a cube in perspective to guide you first, but after a couple it shouldn’t be too hard for you to make them freehand
Cheers!
Good gesture and shape drawings. And thanks for the information.
Thank you! Definitely gonna try doing more foreshortening to the cylinders.
Some gestures and cylinders practice. I am trying to add foreshortening to the cylinders. It is very challenging getting my mind used to picturing it and applying it though. Also played around in drawing cylinders in a certain direction.
Did some character studies from artist Gautier Alfirevic. Really loved their poses and thought I could learn more if I studied them.
Cylinders and skeletons practice
Cylinder figures are looking good
I tried my best to draw the same cylinder in different angles but they still didn't come out quite the same size. Overall, I see a big improvement in my cylinders. Still need to draw hundreds more to get a real hang of it.
Dang, you're really hitting those cylinders! If you are drawing cubes in perspective, try making cylinders out of the cubes to practice the foreshortening - that way you don't have to imagine anything, you can try first in one point perspective and make all the cylinders point at the vanishing point
cheers!
