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Lisanne
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17d
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Week 3. This was a fun challenge and great practice. Thanks for posting it!
Lisanne
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24d
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My week 2 submissions. I feel a little embarrassed posting this. Today felt terrible! It just didn't work. I did extra rounds of warms ups (10x1 min each) but it didn't get better. Result: weird proportions and too heavy on contours. I know it's part of the deal but boy does it suck haha. Also, static poses are hard!
Aurora
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1mo
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fifth practice, this time I tried to think a lot more and take my time, I think this made me improve a little.
Ben Mazel
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1mo
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First time I've ever done timed sketches! Fun but really stressful, so I only managed to do 7. Don't have enough practice yet to do anything with 1 minute...
Hi @Ben Mazel , I think Proko has some helpful (I think also free) videos on figure drawing from Stan's figure drawing course on here/YouTube. The key is to just stick to a few simple gestures for the 1 minute practice. Or just limit yourself to trying to find the head, shoulders en general flow of the posture. As a bonus, the 1 min gestures can serve as a nice starting point for your 5 minute drawings. I need to remind myself to do this as well, as it's always tempting to get distracted by the details :)
Miras Kanatov
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1mo
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WEEK 1: 15 1-minute sketches and 11 5-minute ones. I haven't done timed gesture drawing a lot and I feel like I rushed some poses too much, being worried about the timer. Still, I am very glad to have gotten some practice in. Excited for the rest of the challenge.
I feel the same about the timer! It's hard. It's cool to see how your unique style shows in your 5 minute drawings.
@inspiredsomething
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1mo
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WEEK 1: not my best but this has helped me immensely to get back with gesture drawing again because i lost the flow of it a few months ago :D (first two are the 10 - 1min the other the 10 - 5min)
Lisanne
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1mo
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Week 1, 10x 1 min and 10 x 5 min. I've done this two times this week.
I've been practicing figure drawing with the Proko timer tool for a while now. Looking at the submissions I'm not here to win, but I'm surely down for the challenge. I feel like I usually get the general gestures and proportions down. But I can't draw clean lines like some of you! The movement and (well balanced) exaggeration some of you show in your work is simply amazing and inspiring, so thanks to everyone for sharing.
If anyone reads this and has advice to stop the scribble habit I'm stuck with, help a girl out :) As you can see my lines get quite dark, especially with the 5 min drawings. I'm using the red pencil to stop myself from going in with my eraser too much.
Martin M
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4mo
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Some from memory and angle change games. A lot easier if I first draw it from reference and then go about rotating it.
It makes sense to build a visual library of EVERYTHING! Stuff is a lot easier to memorise after I have drawn it from reference once.
Now I just need to draw everything at least once :D
Lisanne
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4mo
Thanks for another great demo! I didn’t realize how much I needed this advice on matching curves. Super helpful.
