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Here’s day 16 on gestures i’ve tried using more csi however sometimes the pose im using requires more than just one line to convey with csi hence the bad lines if any of you do spot an area where i could improve on please feel free to comment that here. All critiques are welcomed and encouraged thankyou.
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These look really good :) I like the movement, curves of the lines, and the gestures feel exaggerated :) For critiquing these, I view them as movement gestures that aren't structural (like how stand describes the 30 second poses), and it's my personal opinion :) Consider pushing the variation in the line thickness a bit more. For gestures like these, I find that letting lines become thicker or thinner in a way similar to how Stan describes "rhythm" works pretty well. For example, you might have a thick line on the right side of the head, then a line that gets thicker on the left side of the body, and then the right side again, or vise vera. Also, personally, I find that thickening the line by the feet, hands or both (which it looks like you've done a bit in some of them) can really help them feel more like hands or feet even if it's just with a single stroke. Lastly, keep working on which lines are important and which are not. Most of them look very simple, but I don't think the chest area of the last one needs to be as detailed as you made it with both sides connected to form a triangle shape. Also, the extra line inside the triangle on the left side of it doesn't seem necessary either :) Hope this helps! :)
@imnate
this is my first time doing the bean assignment any and all critique is welcomed, Prost!
Bradwynn Jones
Try using heavier line work for the areas being pinched and lighter lines for areas of the bean that are moving away from the foreground. This little trick will help with seeing the bean in 3d space more. I like how you showed the foreshortening by drawing overlapping forms. Nice work!
@imnate
day 13 of drawing gestures one of the person who critiqued my gesture yesterday suggests trying to apply the longest axis more to the gesture, so that is what i try to do in this set of gesture drawing. some of them are missing an arms since it took me more time to find the longest axis however, i could see some improvement in the gesture after apply the longest axis. Any and all critique are appreciated and will help me alot hence please do not be afraid to give me some critique
@imnate
Day 12 doing gestures now i’ve finally opened up to some 2 mins gestures, turns out adding thickness to gestures is way harder than just conveying them with lines. Most of them came out pretty poorly as expected comsidering i’ve almost never drew 2 mins gestures at all, if some of you feel like they could point out some mistakes and give out some helpful critique please do so as any help would be tremendously helpful, thankyou in advanced
Serena Marenco
Hi imnate. Try to see the figure as a whole and not as separate parts when drawing the gesture. Don't think of the torso, head, arms and legs as separate elements but as an organic whole. Very often I see you separate the arms and legs into individual gestures instead of one fluid movement. I'll post an example that I've redrawn on the fly (obviously mismeasuring the sheet!) to show you what I mean. It is the last pose in your series (but the same applies to the others). As you can see, there is a fluid line across the whole body and then another line that includes the shoulders and both arms. Always start by looking for this relationship between the body parts before you start defining them individually. :)
Chris
3yr
Hey, once again these look more like 30 sec gestures. I had the same issue. When I look at my 2 minute drawings from a few days ago I wonder how it took so long to get that result. So I did a lot of 30 sec gestures. Once you do that 2 minutes feels like a long time. If you can get the results above in 30 secs then you will have time to add in more details, such as cross contour lines, which way the head is facing, the position of their hands and feet, etc. BTW which program are you using to draw?
@imnate
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Here’s day 11 on gesture drawing what are your thoughts on them? And i ready to try my hands on the beans yet?
Mirani Cythe
Your gesture drawings are really nice and simple. I like how you can portray clean and fewer lines and make it look like it has more motion.
Octavivs
3yr
I would like to express the view on drawing fundamentals that  they are tools to help you achieve what you ultimately want. I say that in referring to whether or not you should move on to the bean. The bean imo is far more simple than doing a gesture of an entire person, however, it is less explanatory. It’ll help you think in the most basic aspects of three dimensional form while maintaining the simplicity of gesture.      I would suggest going back and forth between the two concepts trying to add what you learn from each to the other. This is what you should always do, especially as you get more complicated with the concepts you practice.  You could always try to do the bean for the torso only and a lined gesture for the limbs and head. Practice to make each concept make sense to you. Think how it could help achieve your goals, even if it’s as simple as making your lines have the same quality as someone’s work you admire. Don’t move on arbitrarily.
Chris
3yr
Most of these look good for 30 second sketches. I would work on doing some longer studies (2min+) before moving on. That's what I'm going to do anyway.
@imnate
Here are the 2minute gestures i made some problems i spotted right off the bat is that the thickness of the limbs are pretty out of proportions i still have no idea what i could do to fix this but if you do please let me know. Any and all critiques are welcomed thankyou in advanced.
Serena Marenco
Hi imnate! Sometimes you forget to locate the shoulders and pelvis, which are crucial both for indicating the pose of the bust and for correctly placing the arms and legs, preferring instead the contour. You don't need to worry about proportions or representing the thickness of the limbs. First of all you need to learn how to correctly represent the gesture, understand the structure of the body so that you can set up a solid base on which to build the body (when you have the necessary knowledge to do so). I understand the anxiety of drawing figures that look as finished as possible, but by concentrating on things you haven't yet been taught you are distracting yourself from what is really important right now: learning to identify and draw the gesture correctly. It may seem repetitive and boring but, believe me, it's fundamental, one of the most important things, so don't worry about proportions and limb thickness, concentrate on what the exercise requires of you. First of all identify the main line of action that determines your body posture. On this you should ALWAYS identify shoulders and pelvis, their inclination and position. After you have correctly drawn the pelvis and shoulders you will already be able to guess the pose of the torso and have the correct starting points for drawing the arms and legs. When drawing the limbs always remember that although they have a fluid shape they are not scarves that move freely in the wind but have a rigid structure inside (the bones) so they have a fluid but also decisive gesture. Don't be in a hurry, observe well before drawing. If you are not happy with the sketch of a pose, try drawing it again, you will understand better what you are observing and drawing each time. I tried to redraw some of your poses, those that had the reference and some that I tried to guess. Next time, if you want opinions, try to include all the references and post a slightly higher resolution image, this one was really very small and I struggled to interpret what I was seeing in some cases. I hope I explained myself well and was helpful. :)
Jahsee Mullings
I agree with @Dylan Gabriel. I did two gesture base on you example. These are my interpretation of what they could look like although it could be better. What I know is that as I continue to learn more in this fundamentals course, my gestures, your gestures and others’ gesture will become better. keep up the good work🥇🧨🥇
Dylan Gabriel
I dont think you need to worry about exact proportion on 2 min or less gestures. Just getting across the motion and force of the pose is good. Your drawing are nice, just keep doing them every day and your eye will improve.
@imnate
Day 5 of gestures drawing im getting better at seeing the flow of poses already
@imnate
Here’s the result of 4 days of gestures i think it’s starting to get abit better all of these are 30 seconds. Please do critique me on how i could about improving my gestured
@imnate
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Hello everyone i’ve been doing the 30 second gesture drawings and somehow made 81 of them i can see some improvements in my gestures however i do noticed that sometimes i get the proportions wrong and some times when the figure is twisting i’d have no idea how to go about doing it. With this i would be extremely great full for those with more experience than i do to give some constructive criticism for my work here Thank you in advance :)
Serena Marenco
Hi imnate! Great clean lines, the problem is that you don't consider the body as a whole but as separate parts. You always draw a separate line for the spine but here what you are doing is not representing a skeletal form but representing the gesture, which is fluid and continuous. Ideally you have to identify the line that runs through the whole body (in rare cases this doesn't happen but most of the time it does). Usually it starts at the neck and crosses the whole body to the ground in a fluid C or S line. On this line you have to identify the position and inclination of the shoulders and pelvis: it will be enough to represent them with two line segments or, having more time, with two boxes. On the pelvis and shoulders you insert legs and arms that you represent with fluid C or S lines (they are almost never straight lines). Pay attention to the reference, study it well at the beginning, the speed will come with time: often the arms or legs are connected in a single movement. In the case of, for example, dance steps you may notice that the connection may be between a leg and an arm, in a fluid way. The body moves in a harmonious way, no part is disconnected from the others. The head, therefore, is also part of this harmonic pattern. :)
Camellito
3yr
Ok, first I want to say that you are getting a good habit of drawing a lot. And most of the figures aré readable. Now, wen you are doing 30 sec you should not be worried about proportion, only the flow of the gesture. Now if you don’t want your figures to look like little people, just try using 1 layer for on figure, try using more space. good luck
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