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Jan Bintakies
Jan Bintakies
Hannover, Germany
I am comic/illustration artist working on my first publication "one damned handshake" for splitter Comics.
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Jan Bintakies
Thanks for sharing these. Your reference pictures are great for training gesture drawing. When I look at your drawings I recognize a few things: All the lines seem equally important. Which makes it harder to "read" your gestures. I usually start with the most important line. The "line of action". Then I add the head. With these two elements your drawing already should tell the most important idea of the pose. All the other lines you draw next are secondary. Looking at your drawings I recognize that your poses consists mostly of curved lines. Do not hesitate to use sharp corners and edges as well. You can archieve contrast by using curves aswell as straight lines. I for myself did not learn gesture drawing here on proko but by participating in a course held by an pixar story artist. So my approach might be different idk. I hope my feedback helps!
Casey Holtz
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1 hour of 2 minute poses! (References from line-of-action.com) I really liked the first two to four but then I started getting mentally caught up and couldn't find my flow again until around #14. I think I started worrying about whether I was practicing correctly and then was stuck overthinking for a while. (Hopefully farther into the course this won't be so much a concern.) How do y'all stay in your flow and/or shake off a bad pose? Am I focusing too much on contour perhaps? Any other critique/advice is welcome as well, for reference I have skimmed through the figure and anatomy courses in previous years and am just starting to work through them seriously (thanks proko 2.0 for the motivation!).
Jan Bintakies
I think these are great. Two things: 1. I sometimes switch to my nondominant hand (in my case the left hand) which makes it harder but activates completly other regions of your brain and helps you see other things, get looser and finally frees you to get more in the zone (letting go) 2. I´ve learned for myself that 45mins to 90mins are alot to be in a state of concentration. Just in case if you have the tendancy to be too hard on yourself - don´t be. Your brain sometimes needs a rest. so dropping out of the zone or concentration can be totally normal. Give yourself a short break (from the screen especially) for a short while!
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