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@kwaku
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1yr
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Here are some of the ones I did today
But I have one problem, I find it hard to draw under pressure. I can't draw well within a time limit and so I did this without any timer. Thank you @Liandro
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1yr
Good job, @kwaku! I made some comments regarding gesture in your older post (https://www.proko.com/s/L4YN). About practicing without a timer, I think it’s no problem at all, especially in the beginning. I understand how doing timed gestures can be too much pressure when we’re still trying to get a grip on the concepts and learning to handle our line work within a gestural mindset. When doing non-timed quick sketches, feel free to take as long as you need to analyze the pose, figure out the main idea of motion and imagine how to represent it in just a few lines. Then, when drawing, remember to make sure you’re not distracted by other aspects of the drawing such as measuring, contours, anatomy or details, but instead really focusing on the gesture (which is something I believe you did successfully in this couple of sketches). Eventually, when you feel ready, you could try the timed quick sketches again, since they can also be a helpful practice to keep us concise, focused and loose. Hope this helps!
@kwaku
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1yr
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For some reason I think I did the colored ones better than the pencil work which I tried to make a gesture drawing. I wanted to add less details as compared to the colored one. I would love to know what my problem is
@kwaku
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1yr
For some reason I think I did the colored ones better than the pencil work which I tried to make a gesture drawing. I wanted to add less details as compared to the colored one. I would love to know what my problem is through a critique
Good work on the sketches! Like @Noe Luis said, focus more on the C, S and I curve lines.
As for why the colored sketch looks better there are 2 reasons for that.
1. Colored pencils can only go so dark so mistakes will be less visible on paper compared to darker pencils.
2. The colored sketch you did is actually better and cleaner than what you did in the first uploaded sketch for example. But it is still comparable with the last sketch.
I recommend to try and go for longer, cleaner strokes when drawing instead of short, messy ones like in the first sketch.
Try practicing capturing the gesture with just 5-6 lines in 30-60 second sketches. And really go for the clean C, S and I lines.
If you have trouble with cleaning up your line work try Ghosting your lines. It's where you plan out the line, go through the motion from your start point to the end point without touching the paper, and then execute the mark.
You capture gesture well, keep working on the line work too. I hope this helped.
Wow the details on the figure are good but it would be nice to focus on the gesture using SCI curve lines.
