I think your gestures are coming along really well! It is really difficult at first and for me its still quite difficult. It forces that observation skill. I think you are doing a smart thing by doing the trace overs first to find how you would do the gesture then doing them. I think you are doing it exactly as you should be keep it up!
Thank you for the encouragement. Means a lot to be supported by the community.
Thanks mate, it really is a challenge. I think I’ve broke the he back of it though (meaning I feel comfortable to do a few of these a day and move on with other things.)
Nearly ready for term two. Little more perspective lessoning first.
My final assignment of Term 1 today, my first ever building in two-point perspective!
I surprised myself with how much I enjoyed it. I held myself back from filling in every stone and roof tile so as not to waste time.
My aim was to practice with the vanishing points so that is what I did!
I was pleased and think I hit the lines well. When it's time to push more into perspective I feel I have done enough for the next assignment.
I started a thread in the Art Critique forum regarding gesture drawing and it got a very very helpful reply.
Here's the link for any that would find it enlightening:
https://forums.cubebrush.co/t/my-journey-with-gestures-with-a-little-help-from-you/11071/5
I'm still digesting and practicing it so for now I'll just say that I am abstracting gestures further down, which will enable me to build more rhythm as I improve my figure drawings.
Here's the last three days' worth:
And with that, I am onto Term 2 tomorrow, the second milestone. I'll do something to celebrate it. I love imprinting my soul with celebration and gratitude. Hope you are all doing well. x
Gestures look awsome you can really feel the energy, 2 point perspective asinglemt looks solid. Perpective in general I find thos asingments are allso the most fun for me. Overl all amazing progres cant wait to see more 
Hey Playforwho89, was thinking about you yesterday. I Was appreciating how you welcomed me to the forums and hoped you were still pressing into your art journey.
Thanks for the encouragement my friend, I'm so appreciative for being about to break out of siff figures, who knew the answer would be stick figures 
Another day, another pen on the tablet ... or the same pen on the tablet ... what I mean is MORE DRAWINGS!
Starting with those daily gestures - which I think I'll only post in batches when there's been significant progress.
So today it is the first head practice of term 2. LET'S GET IT!!!
Orange bits are when something didn't look right so I adjusted to see how far away from the 2/3 measurement I was.
The take away from this first session was how hard it is to draw a good circle. Very hard - and if that circle is off then the face becomes distorted before it's even begun. It throws out the measurement of the oval and if i follow through to imagine the features on the head i can already see they would be grotesque.
Good thing is that means i'm observing. Onward and upward.
All the love x
LET'S GET IT!!! Head practice hell yea! Good conclusion about roundnes of a circle distorting the face later down the line, might sound obvious but took me fair while to realise it my self. Most of the circles here look good one confident stroke mostly, Great work.
Step one today was to re-practice that initial head shape. @Lockenheim pointed out something vital and valuable to me on discord about my last ones.
Some of my center lines were not parallel to the center line and then it hit me how I was missing that. I had overlooked that the oval on the side of the head was of course a circle in perspective. Once that clicked (and with Lock's handy dandy reference in my document) it was a lot better.
Then I decided to get the jaw in and practice that too.
As always, Peace Love, and Progression.
Watched the ear tutorial today and I'm a little unsure about the best way to practice it.
Finding the box to start with is not computing with my brain pan ... any suggestions?
A little play with the photoshop tools assignments.
After making the swords (which took many pen shapes piled on top of each other) I had a pretty good grasp on the tool, so I hit the other two fast.
Ears ears ears ears ears ...
Notes are written on the document. The prevalent thing on my mind currently is how to engage my brain to absorb the things I am seeing. How conscious a practice does that need to be? I could copy them more precisely by measuring them, but would that make me a good artist?
An on going question I feel.
