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For Gesture, I've been training for about 100 days and drawing about 30 a day.Here are some 2min Gestures I learned by watching Michael Hampton Open Class. The first image is my first Gesture. The next few drawings are Gestures that I recently drawn,The final picture is some of my notes and reflections on combining Michael Hampton's theory.Compared to the beginning, I think I have improved, but it is difficult to improve further recently, no matter how much I practice.So I really need some more professional advice.I like to draw, but I don't have other professionals around, so please. Thank you so much.
@momoxue
I drew some LandMark exercises and read some anatomy related books, here are some of my questions. Feedback would be much appreciated. Thank you!!! 1. I can only know the shape and position of the muscles in the standing state. For twisting and other states of Landmark position always makes me wonder how to start. 2. The movement of the shoulder blades and the position relationship between the shoulder blades and the teres majorus muscle confuse me, do you have any good methods for the positioning of the shoulder blades? 3. For the front, I always feel that my abdomen is a little awkward, but I don't know how to correct it.
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @momoxue, nice drawings and good job indicating some of the landmarks. I would consider this exercise completed. You'll keep looking for landmarks as you draw, and when you get into anatomy you'll have extra knowledge to help you place them even more accurately. Other things: - There's some good stuff going on in these. You show a feeling for gesture and form. But the figures feel a bit disjointed, and some of the forms very thin. It might be that you're rushing to quickly into adding anatomical details. Before adding the bones and muscles, you'll probably want to have established the gesture and major forms. Since you already seem to have experiece in drawing forms (btw it would be nice to hear what previous experience you have), it would be interesting to see you do some gesture drawings with clear forms. Kinda like the Mannequinization – Structure of the Human Body, but with more rounded forms. I think you would benefit from checking out this Drawing Demo by Glenn Vilppu and try to mimick his way of working. At 21:00 he explains the process of starting with the flow, then adding forms on top. Apart from flow and proper volumes, also pay extra attention to balance. Check with your intuition: "Does it feel like this figure would fall, or is it balanced". It might help to indicate the ground plane. Your questions: 1. Once you're confident with gesture and major forms, you place out the anatomy. Since the shape of the muscle changes as the body moves, you have to study it thoroughly. You have to know where it originates and inserts, and what form it has, to be able to modify it based on the pose, and place it in space. Practicing drawing the anatomy from imagination, then checking with reference to see where you're off, is a good way to acquaint yourself with it. 2. The shoulder blades are really tricky. I've had to study them a lot, but now they're my favorites😎. One key to drawing bones that aren't clearly visible is to practice drawing them from imagination as described above, until you know where they should be placed, even if they're not visible. I rely a lot on my imagination when drawing anatomy. A thorough understanding, accompanied by clues visible on the surface usually gives me an accurate result, I think. Imagining touching the shoulder blades on the model, as well as imagining striking the pose myself, trying to feel where my shoulder blades would have been, also helps me. I attached an image of a mass conception of the scapula that you might find useful. 3. It might be because you're originating the rectus abdominis all the way down to the crotch. It starts a bit higher, at the pubic crest. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
@momoxue
This is my first attempt to draw beans, I don't know how they look or what is wrong, I hope you can criticize and correct!! thank
Jesper Axelsson
I think they look great! Move on to the next lesson and come back to this one when you feel like you need it. - On the 3rd row, the bean in the middle, the centerline doesn't make sense to me. Maybe you exaggerated the twist too much, or mixed up which line represents back and which represents front. -One thing I struggled with was understanding the overlaps in a twist. That cleared out once I got to the robo bean lesson. Hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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