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And by kindly, I mean let me have it lol. Working through Evistons figure drawing course on here. We are drawing primary and secondary action lines. Thoughts?
I feel like I'm getting the concept but my proportions are whack. My torsos are too long and legs too short?
Forgive the quality. I had to darken the lines to make them show up in the picture.
Thanks for any help!!
**From The Figure in Action - Practice Reel
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2 thru 6 again. At first I was making the torso too long and the legs too short. Tough to keep it in proportion! Thoughts?
Again, forgive the quality. I had to darken the marks so they'd show up in the picture
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I had to darken the lines so they'd show up in the picture :/
But I think I'm getting the concept :)
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Went through the practice reel twice. Comparing to the images I can see how some of my lines are still stiff and I can push the exaggeration more, especially when the endpoints are further away where I tend to be too conservative. My instincts were pretty similar both times so I'd like to go through again and try to pick out different action lines that may not necessarily be my first obvious choice
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So glad you're keeping up with your drawing exercises in spite of the difficulties you're dealing with! You're in a good mindset about your artistic growth! Also, great bird! I think "KEEP GOING" is excellent art advice. It's slow progress, but when you start to surprise yourself with how far you've come that joy is unparalleled! There's an art/life axiom that I always remind myself "you have to push past the ugly stage." There is inevitably a point in every drawing where I stop and say... "this is ugly." The proportions are off, or the gesture is stiff, or something is going so horribly wrong in the piece it makes me want to rip the page out of my sketch book. That's the most important time to "KEEP GOING." You learn more by attempting to pull a drawing out of the fire, than by knocking it out of the park on the first swing. Thanks for sharing, hopefully the dust settles soon, keep picking up the pencil!!
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Love that quote! Thank you.
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I'm absolutely floored. (Don't quit!)28d
Edit. I put the picture of my little bird in the comments. I can't see where to attach on mobile to the main post.
I've been learning to draw for about 6 months now, on and off. A tree destroyed half of my house in a storm, and that's the only time I took off a month to, well, survive. We had to evac. Even three months after that, we still don't have full power. I have to practice drawing before the sun goes down haha.
I say all that because after all this time I just kept at it the best I could. And today at work, I doodled a little bird head. It's not great. But it's not half bad! I don't know shading or textures yet, but I used big planes to map it out and then refined it the best I could.
If someone out there is on the fence about their work and they think it's "bad", PLEASE KEEP GOING. You'll never know how good you can be if you stop, or how much joy it can bring you.
Just pick up the pencil, even when you're supplies are covered in dirt and soot from your house collapsing. I love you all and I love this site!
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Day 1- Fire Hydrant
3mo
I like the idea of extending the middle cylinder all the way over. I was drawing two individual caps on each side and they weren't matching up.
6mo
This is perfect. I was just looking for content on this topic yesterday. Thank you for posting this. It's answering a lot of the questions I had.
