Mimhesis- Art School Journey- Happy to be back!

[Mimhesis]

Hey everyone!

It’s been ages since I last posted here — hope some of the awesome people from back then are still around!

I haven’t drawn anything for months, so I’m basically starting from zero again. To warm up, I went back and redid some of the Term 1 exercises.

Really happy to be back and hoping that attempt number 4 will finally be the one where I stick with the program till the end. 😅
As always, I’m super open to feedback, discussions, and any artistic support from the community.

Anyway, enough talking — here are a few of the Term 1 exercises I’ve been working on lately!

[SamuraiSingh]

Your lines are very clean, it makes your gesture drawings look very appealing

[SamuraiSingh]

Feel free to ignore my advice here

In terms of coming back from a long break or just being inconsistent with things you want to work on. I find that when I am too busy or tired it helps to do even a little bit of drawing to keep the habit. That way I don't end up with long breaks away from art.

[Mimhesis]

For today, I only managed to do 5 poses but I set the timer to 3 minutes instead of 1, so at least there’s that.
I think drawing a little is always better than not drawing at all.

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get a bit more done tomorrow. For now, I’ll stick with the Term 1 exercises to get a better feel for drawing gestures. Maybe by the end of the week I’ll start the first perspective lesson ... we’ll see.

[Mimhesis]

No, I really appreciate you giving me that advice.
thank you for that.
My reasons for taking such long breaks were pretty varied, to be honest I first had to rediscover the joy of doing something just for myself and make time for it again.
Now I’m thinking it’s better to just take 20 minutes and draw , even if I don’t get much done. Like you said, it’s all about getting back into a routine.
Maybe we can help keep each other motivated to stay on track! 💪

[Mimhesis]

The past few days I’ve been focusing a lot on gesture drawing. I kept noticing that I wasn’t really satisfied with my results.
I often caught myself trying to draw the anatomy instead of capturing the actual energy and movement of the pose.

Watching some videos from Proko and Michael Hampton helped me understand my problem a bit better.
I’m still not totally happy with it, but it’s getting closer to what feels right for me.
I’ll probably stick with this term for a while longer before moving on to the perspective term.
Here are a few gesture drawings that I was fairly happy with.

[Nosnibor]

I like your gesture drawings, the wrapping lines really sells the volume of your studies : )

[juromaru]

Ohhhh I am envious of your linework. I also really like that you drew the cylinder lines as well, looks smooth to me.
Do you get bored easily when doing gesture drawings?

[JimSt]

Just wanted to echo an appreciation for your flowing linework. Nice!

[SamuraiSingh]

Great improvement on gestures
I found recently that having a gesture drawing reference from another artist helps when doing them.
I find it hard to think about what it needs to look like under the time limit.