Nov '19

Tried fully fleshing out one of my gestures. Even tried experimenting with thin and thick lines to imply shadow. Gonna keep giving these a daily practice for the west of the week before I start term 2.

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Nov '19

Trying to do this at least once a day to get better with proportions. I feel like the necks and legs are still huge problem areas but the torsos are looking a whole lot better.

Nov '19

Continuing to try the bean excercise but I've increased the time to 1 minute to try to understand the motion of the form better.

Followed it up by 2 minute gestures. The extra time did not help me translate the flow of the model any better.

If anyone has any tutorials or anything you would suggest I'm all ears. Thank you! :smile:

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Nov '19

Your perspective assignments look good, try adding some circles, cylinders or other rounded objects. It's difficult but a great way to push yourself.

I think you made an awesome decision in looking up Prokos videos, those have helped me so much in the past and I can't recommend them enough. Combining his videos with the Art School here will help you to understand the anatomy of the human figure.

Try to not get discouraged, learning this stuff takes some time. Your gestures are coming along really good and your second proportions assignment is better than your first. With your longer poses using a grid can be a great help. I know the video shows a 2x2 grid but I've used a 3x3 or a 4x4 as well so don't be afraid to do the same. That will also give you more areas of negative space to measure. Grids like that have been used by artists for hundreds of years don't be shy about using them.

Hopefully, that was helpful, keep up the good work

10 days later

Nov '19

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Trufasa

I love the enthusiasm you're going after this with!

If I could give you one piece of advice it would be not to put too much pressure into your lines-- Lighter lines are easier to work with as a darker line will look more finished. Another tip I've learned is to try to draw in one swooping line instead of little lines-- swooping lines create flow.
Flow is really important in human form and gesture.
I review the line exercise myself multiple times, because line control is something I struggle with-- it's the foundation of all drawing.
Over all, though, I think you're improving very quickly for someone who's never studied art before!
I really admire how you're researching different teachers as well-- proko is awesome!