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Antonia Ryder
Antonia Ryder
Canada
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Antonia Ryder
I started trying gesture drawings some time ago, but took a long break and just now started trying to draw them again. I constantly feel like I'm somehow doing it wrong? I just want to know if I've got the right idea before I move on to the next lessons., so these are some of the two minute ones I did over the week.
@niantre
3yr
Hi Antonia, welcome back! I have just started the course and watched the first two videos but thought I would try to provide some input. I wouldn't consider these gestures to be "wrong". I like that I can see the curvature of the spine and direction of the face (via the jaw) in many of these drawings and think some of these gestures are quite well done. For example, I think the top left sketch in page 5 is excellent. It's extremely clear, and I feel captures the primary gesture very well. Another one I think was especially well done was the bottom right pose of page 4. From looking through the various sketches, I think one suggestion I have has to do with the arms. Sometimes (but not all the poses) I feel the elbows in some poses have too soft of an edge where it seems like a sharper angle would work better. Proko does mention "noodly" I think to convey certain motions, but sometimes the arms in some of these gestures have a sharper curve than a a soft curve is warranted. For example, the top right pose on page two has the figure covering their face, and the top left pose of page 3 (but i think overall this one actually has a good gesture). In these two examples, it feels like you are used one continuous line to draw the entire outer arm, whereas if you watch Proko's examples, he uses two separate distinct lines to indicate two different lines of motion, and they converge at the elbow. I feel like I don't see this issue with the leg/knees in your sketches, just the arm/elbow in some cases. An example where I think the "smooth" line for the arm was fine was the bottom sketch of page 3, just for comparison. So overall, i think your gesture lines work very well for fluid poses, but just some minor adjustments such as the treatment of the elbows would make the pose read more clearly. I hope this was helpful and good luck!
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