Andrew Huerta
Los Angeles
Hello everyone! I am looking to learn a lot from this community and improve my art. Major interests are figure drawing and character designing.
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Andrew Huerta
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1yr
added comment inDemo - Simplify Portrait from Observation
Hi everybody, here are my 2 attempts for level 2 first one on the left was my first attempt on my own just eyeballing the portrait photo, and the one to the right was followed along with Stan’s video.
I am having a hard time with shading and trying to make it obvious in what direction I am shading. Also measuring the proportion is still giving me trouble.
critique would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Andrew Huerta
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2yr
Hello everyone, If any of you have the time can I please get a critique for this twist. Ive been practicing for awhile but still cannot understand the concept of the twist. Where did I go wrong? During the bean or the boxes? Here is the process of this pose from bean to robo bean. Thanks!
Andrew Huerta
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2yr
Hello all. May I please receive a critique for my few sketches, I have been mainly focusing on angles and twisting. I still have trouble with the twist, even when I have rewatched and followed the lessons step by step. Any personal advice on how you approach the twisting method? Thank you.
Hi all, I have been on this lesson for awhile and this drawing, I feel, is my best so far, but I do feel like something is off. I feel it is still to flat. May I get a critique and some advice on areas that I can improve. Thank you.
Hi,
firstly - good job, you put some work into it, and it shows! I can tell you are thinking about foreshortening - which is very good. There is still room for improvement (which is a good thing!).
That picture looks to me like you are trying to draw contours and then make it more manequinee by adding cross contur. Not sure if it is true, but it does look like it for at least two reasons.
First - there is shitload of cross couture lines - soo many that it muddy the picture and make it hard to read the forms.
Second - you tried to indicate muscles - on arms, on legs, on the belly, you added this mass connecting neck and arms (trapezius muscle?) that is unnecessary and again muddy the picture and hide those forms. Focus on capturing those simple shapes first - cylinders, boxes, and a bit this weird pelvis figure (no idea how to call it) and then play with muscles and other staff.
TLDR: Limit the number of cross conture lines to MAX 2 on a mass. Go for shapes not contures.
Good luck!
Andrew Huerta
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3yr
Here is one of my many pages of robo bean practice, I tried focusing more on the twist in this page and I am having a bit of trouble on it. Can I get a critique and any advice on how you guys approach this twisting method.
I can tell that you tried hard to understand these forms, and good effort since the twist is very difficult. I would suggest drawing all the boxes with straight lines first because you’re losing the perspective in a lot of these, especially in the pelvis, in which many are impossible boxes. I’m not great at perspective either, but I tried my best to show you in the drawover. Most of your ribcage boxes are also too thin in width, only showing a sliver of a side plane, so I think it would benefit you to overlay your drawings over the reference to find the landmarks and determine the right thickness of the ribcage. Most importantly, you should consider the relationship between the ribcage and the pelvis, which follows the flow of the gesture. On the 2nd row, the 2nd robo bean from the right seems very disjointed because we see the top plane of the ribcage, yet you indicated a bottom plane for the pelvis.
P.S. I saw your gesture drawings as well, and I noticed that they lacked volume. Instead of focusing on curves, think of whether you’re looking up/down on each body part and whether it is coming towards you/away from you. I recommend this video by Love Life Drawing on learning to draw gesture with angles (straight lines) to understand the body in 3D space: https://youtu.be/-TqKd2XB844
@prymitywizm
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3yr
Hi,
I thought I kinda get it, but then 11:24 happened and crushed my confidence. How the hell this line is going this direction? It looks like going outside of the body.
I mean, I can see that her belly is kinda sucked in, but it doesn't make sense in context of two tennis balls in the sock.
Can somebody explain that? :( I am so lost now.
Hello, I am still learning this as well so my advice might be off, but I am assuming that the center line from the top follows the angle where the rib cage is tilting, which is forward. While she is bending forward and creating that 'fold' her pelvis is tilted outward so the center flows out.
I hope I was able to help, and maybe someone else will jump in with a better explanation. Other than that, keep at it and it will make sense little by little.
Andrew Huerta
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3yr
Hey guys, back here again with some more gesture practice, these are my recent one’s. I tried to flow more with my lines using the CSI method, as well as connecting the gesture lines from the neck or collar bone, into the leg. Basically I am trying to really use as less lines as I can and combine the gesture line with the longest curve. What more can I improve on?
It looks like you are losing the poses and flow a bit by trying to include outline/dimension to the limbs. Eg - instead of a single line for each leg to demonstrate what it is doing and how it is positioned relative to the others, you have provided an outline that tries to incorporate things like the bumps of the knee and the perspective of the arm pointing away. These things bring perspective, proportions, and anatomy in to play.
Try taking a step back and thinking instead: what single line will show the mainline through the body? What single curve can show how the arm is stretched out and down?
Take it back to the absolute basics you can to show the figure and get more confidence with your lines, and how each line can define the body.
Andrew Huerta
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3yr
Tried out some references before watching the next video. Any advice on what I should improve?
The others have offered good advice so far. I agree with them. At first glance I see your initial gesture line. Then you seem to abandon the gesture and work on the contours. I suggest, after you make your first gesture line, use additional simplified gesture lines to indicate the limbs. I'd also suggest using the images form the videos. Pause the video if you need to and set your own timer. Gesture is meant to be quick lines to get the idea of the pose. I like the action poses you have chosen. Keep practicing.
These are nice, I think you should simplify gesture more, and work on C -curves, S curves, and straights like Stan talks about in his videos. In the beginning you can go slow, and maybe use plumb lines to keep the gesture within boundaries of the pose. Proportions are off in some of them, you can try the eight head approach for a figure. In the beginning, start with an oval for the head, a curve for the neck, followed by the angle for the shoulders(clavicle), center line from sternum to the crotch(you can use plumb line here to estimate where the crotch is compared to the head), drop a curve from neck to the hips then draw c curves/ s curves for the hands and the legs. It is important to go slow, very slow, and understand the pose that you are drawing.
Hello, my first piece of advice is to pick people with less clothing. As to the reason, as seen in the first picture (labeled as #2), neither you nor I know what her body is doing underneath that jacket. There's plenty of free resources such as New Master Academy's YouTube channel (non-nude: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7EWYwaF6E-FZ8JiBlz2tF1DQUCw-GCmn, nude: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7EWYwaF6E-Exv72kVT4yYJM2lX-Xf66I), Line of Action (https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing), Sketch Daily (http://reference.sketchdaily.net/en), and many paid photo packs here on Proko and elsewhere.
I'd just like to say, as I know some people are hesitant to draw (other people) nude, remember that it's to learn the structure of the body, and not for... other reasons.
Next, I would focus on not looking at contours, as you did in most. I think #6's legs are a good example of when you didn't, and instead focused on the tilt and direction of them. #5's squash and stretch of the torso is well defined, and I can feel the tension in it. It's helpful to keep the limbs and torso to one line on each side, unless it's extremely bent.
Hope I help,
Dwight
