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Alex Fore
Alex Fore
St. Louis
A web designer rediscovering a love for art.
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Alex Fore
I've decided to start this course over. It's been several months since I've done any gesture work. My goal is to start pushing poses more and using more confident lines. There are still some scratchy lines, but old habits are hard to break. 1-6 are 30 second gestures. The rest are 2 minutes.
arthur whelan
Nice flowing lines
@zamba
very new at this. here's a bunch of 30sec sketches. I feel like I'm pretty far off the mark here
Alex Fore
2yr
These are really hard to see. If you get some better images, I'm sure you will get some feedback.
Samuel Sanjaya
did some gesture again today, i hope i can get some feedbacks.. thank you
Alex Fore
2yr
Looking good. A few of the gestures look like they could be pushes a little more. in the first image, all the way to the right, in the middle... I feel like you could really push the arch in her back similar to what you have for the gesture on the bottom left of the same page. I would also suggest working on longer, more confident strokes. I am working on breaking that habit as well.
Alex Fore
Any feedback would be appreciated. It's taken a few to really get the hang of where the land marks in the hips are but I think I'm starting to understand
Alex Fore
Alex Fore
3yr
Asked for help
Looking for some feedback on the structure assignment. Here are some of my drawings. Thanks!
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Alex Fore, really good job! - I like to "draw through" the forms, as if they were made of glass. It is harder, but it helps you make the threedimensionality even more correct, and it increases your understanding of form more. - Watch out for divergence. Lines that are parallell appear to converge toward common point when tipped into space. In your 4rth drawing, which is excellent btw (great gesture!), the cat's muzzle is parallell with the eyes, so they should both be converging to the same point, somewhere in the distance. They essentially belong to the same box. I hope this was helpful :)
Alex Fore
Looking for some critiques on my bean drawings. These are just the ones I’ve done on the iPad. Thanks in advance
Jesper Axelsson
Gestural, Solid, relatively clean! GREAT JOB!
Alex Fore
Hi everyone. I’m looking to get a critique of my latest batch of 2min gestures. Im still working on proportions and creating more confident line, but I’m really trying to focus on the movement and force within the gestures. Thanks in advance.
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @Alex Fore, GREAT JOB! I'll do my best to help you further: - In some of these you might want to redesign the contour to support the main gesture more. My paintover: I would draw the contour of her left arm differently. Why? Because it better supports the big flow's c-curve If you're having trouble finding the big picture you can try this exercise: Draw 30s poses using only 5 or fewer lines (CSI) + head I attached an image with some inspiration I hope this was helpful :) Keep up the good work! PS If you post your work under a lesson that has an assignments tag, your post will automatically be marked as a help request. Posts with a help request can be found more easily by people who want to critique
Alberto Grubessi
Hi alex, i am doing this curriculum too!! i am currently at stage 4 and i think it's very useful, my art is improved a lot since i started. I would like to give you some advices that i discovered while doing the curriculum: 1) as Karim said, take your time doing the challenges and the section, i found that in the first part of the curriculum i rushed a bit and maybe my results would be better if i didn't rushed. For this reason i feel like i should go back and at least re-watch/read the materials. 2) i think it's important to check out all of the material suggested (not necessarily buying it) because i found that some of the materials ,for me, were not stimulating or efficient. Example, i found scott robertson's book extremely tiring, boring and excessive; i want to be an illustrator so i couldn't care less about product design and doing very precise and calculated drawings; on the opposite side i found the drawabox curriculum extremely helpful even if i didn't submit for critique, because the program is more direct and applicable immediately on your drawings. 3) during your challenges i would advise you to submit examples of your work to critique, that's because doing this at the end it's too late and so doing it at the middle or dividing the work in quarters can help you learn your mistakes and immediately applying what you learned on the next session. 4) i am also working about 2 h per day because i'm currently at university and i have to study for my exams, don't expect this process to be fast, the curriculum says about 30 days and i said "sweet, 2 years and i have all the foundamentals laid out!!!" well i started a year ago and i am only at stage 4 XD. Although this may seem frustrating we have to accept that we can only study for this much time, so peace yourself and enjoy the process, i can guarantee that if you stick to your plan and really draw 2h a day everyday (or so) you will see progress. Hope it helped, i am sorry if some of the advices may seem silly but i found out these things and so i thought it may help.
Alex Fore
3yr
Thanks Alberto. I appreciate the advice. 2 hours daily is already proving tough but my average is pretty close. Im thinking I may just start a new thread on proko and post updates for critiques
Irshad Karim
This curriculum tends to be floated around a lot, and Proko and Marshall brought it up in one of the draftsmen episodes a while back. I feel I should clarify something- The curriculum shouldn't be ascribed to Moderndayjames - it was put together by Alex Honeycutt (Radiorunner), and features a quote from Moderndayjames, though it's easy to understand why people think it was made by MDJ or involved his input in some way. As far as the curriculum itself goes, the only recommendation I have here is that if you're following it, it's best that you not apply its 4-weeks-per-unit pacing to the sections that have you following along with Drawabox. Drawabox *really* isn't meant to be shoehorned into a specific preconceived timeline, and when students try to do so, they end up rushing and missing big chunks of the material. When working through any Drawabox content, just focus on giving it as much time as it requires for you to complete the assigned work to the best of your current ability. Setting deadlines/timelines/etc can be very useful further into one's learning process, but I think that the foundation one builds up at the beginning of their journey is so critical that it should absolutely not be rushed.
Alex Fore
3yr
I tried changing the thread title after I realized my mistake, but I don't see how too. I think people get the point though. Thanks for the input. I can see how the timeline would make some rush. 4 weeks isn't enough time for me on some of this because I have other that come first.
Dan B
I have recently started this 'curriculum.' Incidentally I recently completed the 100 heads challenge before starting and I've been through the Proko course a bit too. For me the appeal is the structure with attached 'projects.' I struggle to give myself structure or larger projects so this is already quite helpful. It still leaves the discipline to the individual, but I'm hoping it's going to really help with steady and constant practice and progress... It seems quite flexible too: add extra practice/lessons to the areas you need while going light-on for the already learned areas. I'm working through Figuary at the moment. Once we can get study groups etc going on Proko it'd be great to see a few groups around this 'curriculum' to share the experience/progress.
Alex Fore
3yr
the structure was the big pull for me too. Study groups would be nice. We can always setup another thread or a discord to post progress and try to keep anybody who joins motivated.
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