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@kareshi
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9mo
added comment inStep by Step: 3/4 Pose
This 3/4 one was a nice opportunity for me to tackle one of my interests, concept art, so I attempted another pose instead of yours.
Usually in concept art poses, characters are drawn in a neutral position and the artist develops their costumes and general appearance. I attempted to resolve this position using one of these poses, to no avail. In a way, I am having much more success with dynamic poses than neutral (stiff looking) ones. It could be a mental block, but Im not figuring a way to work from the inside in these gestural attempts
Considering your experience teaching artits in the industry you might have dealt with this before .
Id love to have your feedback on my attempt and hear your approach to those. Thank you once again Mr Hampton
@kareshi
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9mo
Since you talked about shape based gestures here, Id like to ask you a thing. I apologize beforehand If you feel Im derailing from the context of your lessons.
Your basic recipes for gesture have been a blessing for me, using the movement of the spine to build the torso and the relative positions of the 3 large masses , head, ribcage and pelvis. But since Ive been doing it ad nauseum Ive began to compare the looks of my gestures against yours for example, and even if it aesthetics is not the goal of a study, I still came to dislike mine.
So I began to drift to some gestural approach that incorporates some shapes and anatomical information, in order to attempt to produce some aesthetic value to my drawings and obtain some pleasure from the task itself, like the ones attached.
Do you think those are in anyway detrimental to the process of learning the figure?
Again, my apologies for bringing this topic if its unrelated to your course.
Thank you for your dedication to teaching.
@kareshi
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9mo
Mr Hampton, during your lectures, when you say to make the "pelvis and the ribcage kiss" in order to prevent spacing them too far apart (a common newbie mistake), you mean to do that during the landmark stage right? During your perspective/box construction stage, I notice you place them apart again in their anatomically correct positions,so I wanted to give myself a more clear mental instruction from your suggestion
@kareshi
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9mo
Here I am ready for the grind, tanking all the frustration of my skill not yet being where I want it to be. Lets go Mr Hampton!