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Harry Green
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4mo
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Today, I did three rounds of gesture studies with some 1 min studies by myself, and 2 sessions following the 2 min and 30 sec videos. For my solo studies I tried to focus on making my work less scratchy to get a clearer idea of the gesture. I think they turned out alright, but I'm worried I may have gone too far in the opposite direction now?
Other than that, following along with the example videos really helped! I'll probalby use those as a reference to look back on and evaluate my gesture studies in the future (along with the subsequent example videos).
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4mo
Nice improvement!
Harry Green
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4mo
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It's been a while since I properly did some technical drawing and since I'm not happy with my art at the moment, I thought it would be good to go back to basics and refresh myself on the fundamentals.
Here's some 1 minute gesture drawings I did this morning. The main thing I picked up on during my session is how sketchy or scratchy my lines can be, which I believe I can improve on by limiting myself on the number of lines I'm allowed to use. Is there anything else I can improve upon with my gesture studies?
These are great! You already pointed out what I was going to say, how the line quality could be given some attention, but in terms of expressivness and body language these are pretty good. There's no end to improvement
How big are this drawings? Are you using your whole arm when you draw? If you use your whole arm you can get more fluid and cleaner lines, but that also takes practice. I would suggest that for your line you practice some line exercises for like 10 minutes before each session, use you whole arm. Also, when drawing gestures try to push your simplification, even thou these are really simplify, I think you are getting caught in contour in some places.
When drawing 1 minute or longer poses before the actual drawing, ask your self:
"What is the main idea of this pose?" Or "What is this model doing?"
And "How can I best represent that idea?" Or "How can I simplify this pose?"
Just by answering these 2 questions you'll see an improvement.
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4mo
Maybe instead of framing it as limiting your line count, think about it as each line representing a conscious thought. I think you can use as many lines as you want to, as long as each line supports the form and function of the pose. You have really nice rhythm in these :)
