Nov '22

Thanks @ksermione! I would still like them to look a bit more fluid and less blocky, but I also feel like I gain a tiny bit of confidence every time I do a page of them, plus they're starting to be more fun and less stressful for me.

I took a break from exercises and did some sketches from reference:

I think my plan is to start Term 2 in December. I hope to have time to start watching the videos this week. I have a few more personal pieces in mind to do on the side as well, which I will try to make more time for. I am a bit worried I'll burn myself out if I only just stick to lessons and exercises.

Nov '22

If you are open to hearing advice, maybe you can achieve a more fluid gesture if you tried using a single line to make the whole gesture, like one line that goes completely down from the neck down to the tip of the foot, and another one line that going from one hand all the way to the other. might help out remove the blocky feel. I am also currently trying to do that with my gesture drawings :smile:

Nov '22

Awesome work
Things I learned so far that helped me with gestures is making one curve go into another curve, playing with line weight to emphasize movement or force in my head, using the entire canvas and drawing from the shoulder

Cheers and don’t burn out :stuck_out_tongue:

Nov '22

Thanks @ksermione and @snakker! I am always open to hearing advice and feedback. I'll focus on trying that next time I do some gesture drawing.

11 days later

Dec '22

Thanks @prinzmoana pretty much what I was going for.

Here are some more pages of gestures I did after re watching the part of Marc's term 1 figure drawing video where he goes over gestures and (at least trying!) to keep @ksermione advice in mind:

eh well I did feel a bit better about them at least!

I still haven't had time to start Term 2, but I did start another side project:

I hope to finish designing this and then draw it in perspective at some point, possibly model it in 3D too.

Dec '22

Nice work, and yo those towers look sweet

Cheers!

Dec '22

Ahh looks great! excited to see what you do with those towers :wink:

Dec '22

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matthewwemes

Keep on going with those Gestures, They're looking really nice, and that Tower has a really nice depth to it despite it being in the very early "blocking things in" stage, keep it up!.

Dec '22

Thanks so much for the compliments and encouragement @snakker @ksermione @CYP2C19 !

I kinda started the tower project because I was worried I'd get tired of exercises, but then I started getting overwhelmed with all the ideas I was having for it, so I went back to exercises, lol. (I will probably post some variations of it once I have a few worked out, but I don't want to post like 30 half baked ones)

Anyway, here are the exercises:

Dec '22

Yo, I really like that 10 min study, I feel you definitely got her likeness in the face and I like how you used some overlap in the silhouette of the arm to denote the biceps brachii and the skin folds at her back. Also the proportions look good

I know this was just a 10min sketch, and presentation at this point might not matter when you are just suggesting the shading, but it does look a little messy when the lines you use to describe it are chaotic. In stead, try using lines that go parallel to each other (crosshatching), these can be straight in any direction within the boundaries of a shape to just to give an idea of a shadow or they can be curved and follow contour lines suggesting the volumes and shading of an object. Make sure to lift the pencil/stylus/pen off the canvas for each mark made and it will look much cleaner

Cheers and keep it up!