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Ashley Lubbering
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3yr
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Here are a few of my attempts of the assignment. Definitely found it more challenging. Feedback is appreicaited.
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3yr
Hi @Ashley Lubbering, nice drawings! I found this exercise really challenging too. I think you did well with simplifying the animals into basic shapes. The next step is to make them more three dimensional; building them with clear geometric forms and using crosscontours to emphasize the forms.
- I would suggest that you practice drawing cylinders and boxes on their own, spinning them around from different angles, both from reference and imagination.
The boxes for the horse's feet tell me that you would benefit from this. The edges are not converging correctly and their rotation don't correspond to the direction of the feet in the reference.
The crosscontours on the sphere of the head of the horse, tell me that you would benefit from practicing drawing circles in space (which cylinders are great for). A circle rotated in space becomes an ellipse. Ellipses don't come to a corner but are rounded, making it look like they're wrapping around the sphere (Structure Basics – Making Things Look 3D at 07:56)
To give an analogy: These drawings are like a language. The boxes and cylinders are your vocabulary, and the fusion of them sentences. If you're confident in the vocabulary building sentences becomes easier. If you're confident in drawing boxes and cylinders on their own constructing these animals will be a lot easier.
To sum up:
Fill a page with boxes and a page with cylinders and tag me (@Jesper Axelsson) in your next post if you want me to have a look at them.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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Been a while since I posted due to work and life stuff but here are my practices of the beans. Feedback is appreciated.
I admire your patience and perseverance! :D Doing tons and tons of poses is just exactly the thing we need to do. :)
Great work identifying the main action line for each pose! I love the fact that each one is focused on that action line, which makes them very clear and legible. However, I sense there is something holding you back: You are drawing all the body parts as 3D shapes (boxes and cylinders), which immediately steals your attention away from gesture and forces you to focus more on volume.
Of course, the 3D-ness of the body is a thing we don't want to forget about. But here's an idea for you to consider: When you want to exercise your awareness of volume, try doing some mannequinization studies (which Stan covers later on in the course). And when you're doing gesture drawing, focus on gesture ONLY: nothing but movement and flow. Maybe you could challenge yourself to do some poses using nothing but CSI: C-lines, S-lines and straight lines; no cylinders and no boxes. Force your figures to look like spaghetti people!! I guarantee your ability to identify and express poses will increase a lot faster. :)
Ashley Lubbering
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3yr
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Did another 20 set of poses for 30 seconds. I try to slow down this time and not rush through the pose.
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3yr
Hi @Ashley Lubbering, nice work!
I'll do my best to help you further:
PRACTICE TIPS
I attached an image with some practice tips. I think this is the most important advice I can give you at the moment. If you practice a lot and with those tips in mind I think you'll be able to improve fast and find the answers to many of your questions on your own.
DRAWING THE FLOW
Looking at your 30 second drawings, I think they are a little too much like stick figures. Or maybe not stick figures... like the wire mannequin you start a sculpture with. The same construction over and over. It´s a smart way to construct the figure, but for this excercise I would say the goal is to draw the flow itself, rather than constructing a gestural mannequin. I attached a paintover of one of your drawings. The lines you indicate should be the flow connecting the body parts, not the body parts themselves. Look at Stan´s examples for inspiration. This is important since, you'll be building on top of this flow when designing the contours in a longer pose.
But again the practice tips are the most important, especially the part about following along with Stan, since his good habits will become part of your repertoar.
Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
You conveyed the motion of the figures well, I can tell what each pose is doing.
Hey Ashley ! I see can see you caught some good flow on some of them !
I would have 2 ( related to one another ) advices :
- When drawing gesture, you want to focus on simple lines.
( In his video Stan talks about the " CSI " rule , limiting you lines to " C curve " "S curve " or Straight line " )
On your sketches, i see many straight lines, wich sometimes damage the flow of the pose.
- And try to limit the number of lines you put down
It seems you have a tendency to use multiple lines to do one limb, making it a bit scribbly
An important part of the exercise is to simplify the pose, you want to catch it using as few lines as possible.
One example : On Stan's video, in the second 30 s pose, you can see he uses only one subtle S shape and one C curve to describe the entire motion of the leg.
Anyway, i hope it helps !
So, these look like something we do called blind contour drawing, where you look at the model and not your drawing. Is that what you were doing?
Very dynamic, I love them, some are a little hard to read. I would say maybe be more confident and add less lines
Ashley Lubbering
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3yr
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Hello, these are my first sketches for the course. Any feedback I appreciate it!
You're sticking to close to the basic structure of a human rather than trying to find the motion of the pose. You can understand how the person is posed through your sketches but you don't need to define the rigid structures like the torso and pelvis like the ovals you've been using. Try to use long lines. Since they are your first sketches it should be fixed through repetition.
