Andrew Knolla
Boulder, CO
I love art and I'm trying to fit practice into a busy life. Also love rock climbing and do web development for work.
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Carl Harrison
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3yr
added comment inHow to Draw Balanced Poses
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Hello all, these are my second batch of balance and construction drawings. I have found the exercise challenging in breaking the body down into forms and would really appreciate feedback on the construction and balance of the figure drawings presented here.
Andrew Knolla
3yr
Hi Carl. These all look really good to me - balanced, clean, and well constructed. The proportions all look really good to me except that the ankles look too thin in most of them. And the first one would read better if you included a basic indication of what he is sitting on or leaning against.
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Smithies
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4yr
Hi! Firstly - what neat notes! Yours put mine to shame. I'm sure it's really worthwhile making such thorough notes, but make sure you break it up with lots of drawing practice. Maybe don't go through the course so quickly (or even each video?) so that for every page or so of notes, you spend a couple of hours just drawing and practising from different angles, or from different references. I would have thought even that might get exhausting, so take a break from 'learning' drawing and just chill out with some gestures or something more relaxing or something you find easy every couple of hours :). Keep up the solid learning - it'll pay off!
Good advice from Smithies. I would also emphasize doing less writing, more sketching. Maybe you could document the same ideas by highlighting/emphasizing certain things and/or putting short/simple labels with the sketch rather than explaining in full sentences. Jeff Watts always talks about committing concepts to memory by drawing them over and over (not writing them out).
Andrew Knolla
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4yr
Based on your line style I would guess you're familiar with him, but if not, you should check out Frank Cho's work as an example.
