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@raeterrific
I am absolutely baffled by how everybody here is going from pictures of real people to these stylized bendy cartoon versions. He just draws lines like they're obvious but... I can't figure out how they connect to the person he's supposedly looking at. Often the finished product looks cool but at best like a vague approximation of the original. And the photos he's referencing are all very slim and in very unrealistic positions, which seems like the best possible starting point. He's got the message up about "motion not contour" and I'm just continuing to stare at this going, you're drawing a person in a single position from a still photograph, nothing is moving! There is no motion! Or talking about using a C curve instead of a straight line to draw something that clearly isn't the spine to make it look "relaxed" when the woman in the photo is laying in what is clearly a very uncomfortable position and not at all visibly relaxed. It feels like there's a missing "and draw the rest of the owl" part of this explanation for me, but apparently other people are getting it? Is my brain broken or something? Has anybody had this kind of problem and found other explanations that make it click?
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Gesture isn't supposed to be "accurate" to the model; nor is it something that can be learnt overnight like anatomy - I suggest you take some time to observe how humans move, especially if you're having trouble seeing the motion in a still figure. It helps to think about where the tension & force in the figure is - unless the model is standing in a default position there are always areas of tension & relaxation to be found in the body, and your job is to communicate that through gesture. I found that watching animations (cartoons, anime) or reading comics can help, as heavy stylised artstyles rely heavily on these curves to communicate what's happening on the human figure. Something else that helped me was to pose as the model is posing, so you can firsthand experience what's happening. In the end gesture can be quite subjective, so it's natural to be confused by it. Hope that helps & good luck :)
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Sorry, but where are the assignment images for part 2 and 3 for the obliques? (model quicksketch and skelly drawings) I can only see the ones from part 1, which is to draw the beans.
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