My 2nd sheet of 30 sec gesture drawings and well... I'm not happy
. I can see I still struggle with proportions a lot so far. Also i think these are lacking some sort of direction or flow. Tbh at the moment it's hard enough to even get the character on paper in time. Also im struggling to prioritize. Right now what seems to be working best is head/action line/legs. I also feel like the more i focus on the legs and feet the better the pose gets.Thanks for your help guys!
Good job with these gestures, definitely I can understand this pain, I hated these so much when I first started them. A few things to note, when I was first starting I felt 30 secs was painfully to fast to even get anything out of the exercise. Marc recommended to me to go up to 2 mins and I feel like it helped a lot. Marc suggests starting with the head, but I have always, always had so many probems with that. Personally I start with the upper torso, then action line, lower torso, legs, arms head last. I have heard artists have different orders, there seems to be no right way to do it, do what feels best and stay consistant. I like torso first because everything builts off of it. Everyones gestures starts out just like this. Just keep going for it. Nice work!
Yeah, I increase my time as well because it frustrates me when I'm not even able to complete each piece or I'm not satisfied with it.
I think it's a good practice with people who focus on details a lot (I'm that person) so the 30 secs are to help them not to get stuck on one part of the body and be more flexible.. but I think increasing the time, in the beginning, helps to get used to sketching gestures and then once you're more comfortable and know what's the process that works for you (like @Lockenheim said) you can then start decreasing the time.
Thanks for your feedback. I upped my time to 1 min today and it feels better. Like i can actually look at the reference and not panick to get something on the paper. It definetily feels like I'm improving and i'll be posting some more gesture drawings over the week.
Also thanks. I'm trying one minute poses right now, which feel much better. I'll keep you posted
Also I really liked the pen control worksheet we got the first three weeks. It felt well designed and you could easily see your progress. Since we got a new exercise (from the video on youtube) and I could not find a sheet for that, I created my own. Do you think anybody ill be interested in that? I'll gladly share it in better quality (idk what the forum does to my images but they dont look the same).
Allthough this one seems to have turned out alright.
oooh is that new? that wasnt there when i downloaded the course 
Yeah, I don't have it either. Do you guy get a notification when there is new stuff added?
I have gotten some emails when things were added like the new weekly schedule for example but i dont recall getting an email for this pretty new pen control worksheet
Well since I made it myself i guess you could describe it as new .
Feel free to download and use it though!
To answer your question no, I did not get any notifications about new stuff (yet). Regarding this worksheet you would not get notified anyway, since I made it myself and it is not officially part of the course. Feel free to download and use it though!
Thanks alot! it'll make things easier
oh wow lol thats pretty cool! it looks so official that i thought Marc made that XD
Hey guys
,here are todays gesture drawings (1 min poses). I feel like im able to better understand and get the gesture, allthough it still feels kinda stiff. Getting some volume (even wrong volumes) on the page seems to help me. ALso i tried to focus more on legs because imo it makes my gestures more expressive. Still it feels like its very much a hit and miss game. Some poses i like, but most I don't. However the little improvements i see keep me motivated!
I can definitely see the improvement from the post a couple of days ago, keep at it. it helps me as well to add volume to the thighs and hips, don't know why lol but it works for me
Thanks
