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@ghilo89
Here's my first try with master studies. I chose a drawing of Moebius. Unfortunately I don't have access to a scanner right now so I had to take a picture and the result is pretty distorted. I am actually pretty satisfied with the drawing even though I doubt I nailed the lines. I wonder if I should choose a model with more evident line variations next time (and a black and white one: colors were more distracting than I though).
@ghilo89
Here are my assignments! I just noticed that I may have pressed the pencil too light because they're not easy too see. The penguin's tail disappeared
@ghilo89
Hello! These are my first tries of the assignment. I'm having lots of problems. In particular, I often have no idea of the direction the legs cilinders should be facing! It's easy when they're obviously going forwards or backwards, but where it's more subtle I never seem to get it (like the cat leg for example, which is going left and it seems that it is going parallel to my eyes). Advice is much appreciated :D
Serena Marenco
Hi ghilo! You chose a couple of difficult poses! May I suggest you try using less cylindrical or otherwise curved shapes and try using some boxes and wedges, for example for the shoulders and pelvis? They will make your life a lot easier in determining the pose and the space occupied by the figure. I would also advise you to always start with a gesture, as you would when drawing a figure. The legs, especially of animals such as deer and cows, are often, from the elbow/knee down, just bones and tendons with a minimal amount of muscle and fat, so not very cylindrical. When you draw the head try to imagine first of all the shape of the skull: you will have an arch of the eyebrow, the cheek bones, the arch of the nose, the jaw: none of these shapes is usually curved, but made of planes and the only big "soft" mass is given by the muscles of the jaw (as in horses that have a big curved muscle which is their characteristic). Don't be a slave to shapes, before you start drawing try to understand what is really a curve and what is a flat superdice. Animals and people ultimately have roughly the same structure, just with different proportions and joint configurations :)
Christopher Beaven
I totally have the same problem. There are forms or connections between forms on the body that seem to have no curving contour at all. When this happens I just make an educated guess. The contours you drew on the cats leg would be very similar to how I would have done it. The top of the leg is slightly coming at the viewer while the bottom of the leg is slightly moving away. Better to exaggerate a little bit than draw perfectly straight contours I think. A great example is the elephants trunk. It's skin is providing the contour lines. In the middle of the trunk there are many of those lines that are perfectly horizontal even though they are above the line of sight. Your decision to draw the trunk contours with an arc indicating that its above the line of sight is great. Overall what you've done is looking great. Keep practicing!
@ghilo89
Hello! I did my first try of the bean excercise and would like to know if I'm on the right track. It's harder than it seems :D They're referenced from the free mallory pack and follow the order!
@ghilo89
3yr
@ghilo89
Hi everyone! I just started following the course but I'm struggling a lot with 30 sec and 2 min gestures (I think I struggle more with 30 sec actually, but I have problems with both). It seems so easy while watching the videos, but when trying them myself it all falls apart xD It may be kind of a dumb question, but I don't understand where to attach the limbs in the 30 sec ones, since I'm trying to use fewer lines xD Does anyone have some advice? :)
@biesann
3yr
Connecting the limbs to the ribcage and pelvis, you need go define the ribcage and pelvis and find the flow to the limbs.
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