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I’m back and focusing on drawing the head this week using Stephen Michael Hampton’s approach would love some feedback
David Sánchez
Michael Hampton is a really good source! My recommendation would be to draw heads in bigger sizes, mr Hampton's aproach uses a lot of construction and geometrical detail, so in order to get the most out of this exercise it might be a good idea to practice with a bigger size. If you are working on an A4 piece of paper (regular size), draw the head in a size so you have 4 to 6 heads per page, that would give you more space for details to represent the construction. The basic construction that you got looks about right, the proportion and later details will start to look better the more you practice. Good work and keep practicing!
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Sketchbook drawings
I want to share some of my drawings. Feel free to critique or share your thoughts. I’ve been stagnant for a while now, so I’m hoping that this change will help me improve.
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this is my first attempt.
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this was difficult for me, any feedback is welcome
Jesper Axelsson
Hi @needsmuchhelp, nice studies! This is not easy. Nice job with showing dimensionality of the forms! - What's you art goal? Do you want to do animation, illustration, florence academy style portrait, or something else? Knowing that might help me guide you better. Feel free to put together a slide with a few examples of art by artists that you admire. Not just any artwork that you like, but the type of work that you'd like to create yourself. - The proportions are off in your drawings. I have some ideas to help you with that: Do a few more figure drawings, but rather than drawing boxes and cylinders focusing on the form, draw simple shapes. That will help you focus more on the relationship between the parts. The great thing is that within those shapes, is the form. If you want to show the form, you simply add crosscontours. You can see some examples of me drawing with simple shapes in this reply https://www.proko.com/s/nH3v - It would be great to see more energy in the poses you draw. I think you'd appreciate reading this reply https://www.proko.com/s/bcZ6 - I noticed that you posted some drawings for the Drawing Basics course as well. I think you'll really appreciate taking it. It will support you with a lot of skills that can help you with your figure drawings. This video for example shows How Animators Use Basic Shapes with Aaron Blaise. And the course also seems like a lot of fun :) I hope this helps :) Keep up the good work!
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This lesson really helped me with getting limbs in the right looking place and critique is welcome
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Tried some more landmarks and added beans
Martha Muniz
You've got a good handle on the beans, they capture a good motion and volume from the references. I think with the landmark drawings, they could benefit from the same gestural quality you show with the beans already. It could benefit you to start out with a bean shape and add flowing rhythm lines, before adding in the structural landmarks. It's also great that you're measuring and comparing angles between landmarks, as this is the right spirit to approach this stage: an active workspace to place and correct and figure things out. But don't feel that the first line you put down has to be exactly correct and finished, feel free to draw over with light sketching until you reach the intended result. A loose drawing approach can help you find flow extending throughout the gesture too.
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here are my attempts  please let me know what I can do better
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I had a time with this horse I don’t think I fully understand structure
Smartlin
1yr
Hello fellow student, I attempted your horse picture as it is such a nice picture. Left is before watching the critique video (struggled a lot) and right is after. I am also a beginner in structure. Watching Stan demo the Rhinoceros helps a lot. You can follow his and do several times. You will get better.
Peter Tinkler
I agree with the previous comment, and would also add be careful with your foreshortening, as that's one of the things most catching you out. Your cylinder shape for the body/torso needs to be shorter/more compressed. The angle is a three-quarter view, so that cylinder shape will be foreshortened. If it's still catching you out, try use comparative measuring. Hope that helps. Keep going.
Peter Anton
Your structure looks like you have the basic idea of it, you just need more practice is all. The biggest issue I see is proportion. Even if your construction were perfect, it would still be in the wrong place. It looks like you did a decent job with the "parts" (limbs, head) but didn't capture the overall big shape of the horse. The original horse could fit into a TALL rectangle, whereas yours would fit into a very WIDE rectangle. I'd take a look at Proko's gesture videos on youtube. But basically, start with the big shapes first and then work your way to the smaller shapes. Great job though, it just takes time and a lot of practice
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