Chase - Art School Journey (Term 1 - Week 5)

[gregorya]

Thank you. But I would like to know the names of the artists.
For your proportions from memory, the necks are very wide on the first one. The others have good proportions from their angles. the shapes are pretty good.

[leshachase]

1. Masayuki
2. Yoshiyuki sadamoto
3. Yoshiyuki sadamoto
4. akemi hayashi
5. yumi ikeda

[leshachase]

[leshachase]

Day 1 of week 5! Realized last minute that the gestures for this week were 2min and not 1 lol

[gregorya]

Thank you.
Nice work on the perspective and the shapes. The proportions are getting better as well as the gesture drawings. I think you need to work on the legs on the proportions.

[leshachase]

1 point perspective is awkward to draw, I'm not sure why lol

[leshachase]

I honestly can’t tell if these gestures are getting any better since I’ve started… .-. I keep reminding myself it’s only been a few weeks, but I definitely feel like the 2 min gestures have been worst than the 30 sec and 1 min ones. I’ve even been taking slightly more time with these if I don’t manage to finish within the time limit lol

[gregorya]

1 point perspective is awkward to draw, I'm not sure why lol

It might be the perspective lines or the placement of the boxes. Maybe add some more lines.
The cut shapes look pretty good.
For the gestures, you're getting better at the poses.

[brohawx]

One tip - is to not add construction to the gestures. Gestures are abstractions. They do not represent anything physical - but motion itself. Scribbles are closer to that because you are not doing any construction - now imagine taking those 30 seconds and spending 2 minutes on one pose. Now do another two minutes 2 or 3 more times on the SAME pose. What have you learned about representing the motion of a figure in the drawing in that exorcise. What did you stop doing? What captured the essence more?

Rhythms help with this - I just posted a critique in the critique section with all those links to helpful rhythm videos.

2 Minute figure drawings in a figure drawing session are warm ups to get proportions right - you will quite quickly move onto 5 minute and 10 minute poses in an afternoon session.

You also have to try to do a long drawing- 30 minutes to an hour. You will soon see that what your brain pays attention too in those initial stages are different than what it pays attention to in the last stages.

Your two minute gestures do not need to be the skull, rib cage and pelvis connected by the spine first. What is the action line from skull to pelvis, or skull to foot, or fist to fist?

Draw that, then focus on height and width of the figure - and that is IT. That is all you need for a gesture. Any longer and you get into construction in a five minute drawing.

I have a few other talks on gestures in the critique section I believe you can search for them.

Steve Huston - "Making Every Mark Count"

"1: Gesture is the fundamental design line.
2: The gesture line must act as the connecting line, something to which the structure can attach."

(structure is your construction method of making a mannequin)
If you are stuck on this, just think - long side, short side, top, bottom, center line. You can do that. You can count to five.

Side, Side, Top, Bottom, Center. Over and Over and Over.

Each section of the body has to have those completed.
Torso - Head - Limbs - Extremities

Things like the head can be a circle or a triangle or whatever, but - to each their own.

[leshachase]

Oh wow, thank you! This is a fantastic breakdown and I'll be sure to look up those videos you mentioned and other posts

Breaking the gestures down into 5 pieces is a fantastic way to think of this and I'll try to implement them in my drawings this morning. I definitely over think it lol

[leshachase]

Repeating week 5 as I got a bit busy last week (and just incredibly exhausted lol) and missed out on a few days. Tried doing my gestures for today based on Brohawks suggestions, keeping in mind to stay simple.

[leshachase]

1 of 5 character drawings for the week

[leshachase]

2/5 from last week

NGL, Monster hunter Wilds took up my time last week following its release and I'm having a blast, lol so I have no one to blame but myself here for being stuck on Week 5, but here we go again

[leshachase]

I've reached that point in my 'Gonna start drawing again' journey where I am losing motivation, lol. 3 months is typically my trend of when I start to taper off, then next thing I know another year has gone by. I've been drawing here and there, still on week 5 I refuse to move on until at least I have the 5 character linearts done.

[kalienator]

I get that same feeling all the time. For some reason just sitting down to start is super hard. I hope you don’t stop now. I think part of it is that it’s hard to see the improvements from day to day but over time they really add up. I have been in that same situation so many times and It’s super annoying to start over again after a year has passed and you will be kicking yourself later for not sticking to it. Maybe try doing some just for fun drawings for a while but keep posting on the forums. Don’t give up!

[gregorya]

I've reached that point in my 'Gonna start drawing again' journey where I am losing motivation, lol. 3 months is typically my trend of when I start to taper off, then the next thing I know another year has gone by.

You don't need to draw for long periods. Just at least 10 minutes a day are enough.

[leshachase]

Thank you! Happy I'm not the only one lol I'll try to keep it up and just do little things until I breakthrough the demotivation, idk why its so hard to do something you WANT to do sometimes.

[leshachase]

Yea thats what I'm trying to aim for, usually once I manage to sit down to do a few minutes I'll go for a bit longer. Sometimes just trying to sit and do it is so hard lol but thats no real excuse I guess

[gregorya]

Whatever time you have is still better than nothing. Pick a time in the day when you have time to spare and just draw. Maybe in the morning.

[Nosnibor]

Your apple & lemon study is amazing : )