This was tricky, starting out with the master studies part. Inspiration was high and the drawings felt they would be clear cut to work from, but hit a wall in each and every one. And especially study 3, 8 and 10 went bad, didn't get it with the torso and hip lines. Really hope to get some of it cleared up in the review, seeing more examples and corrections. Struggling with torso if line is spine/contour/some overall gesture line. And also hips with so few lines gives trouble. Also think I confuse gesture with form and volume, latter perhaps not needed at this stage. Also nice with more lectures beeing posted, and really happy the gesture book arrived in mail today. Head down, push forward🙂

Really wan’t to break out of the ’draw as you see’ outline based way of drawing, otherwise having done a tone of life drawing. Also from time to time starting out with basic forms eggs/boxes/etc, but still feel to locked to more strictly copying the pose and appearance. But now while drawing along with the examples It feels exciting this way of thinking/working. Then trying out on new poses I realize it will take _some_ more practice and understanding though 😬😅 Really tricky with the hips/buttocks and with the leg connections. And got completely stuck on the legs on leftmost figure, going over and over making it worse with every attempt. But guessing I'm too much tied to the outlines, trying to distill and find the rytms from that. Well just to try again I guess, also really looking forward to upcoming lessons!

And now for something completely different...

Cracking on...

First draw along and test the concepts, then some practice and try out more. After the blobs with objects, now the pancakes opens up a new way into environments and backgrounds. Awesome 😃. This whole approach is so helpful, focusing first on developing the creative intuitive side.

This was fun for the most part. I tried messing around and cutting/ scooping out mass from these forms. What confused me the most were forms (like the one circled in the second image) where the bottom plane touches the floor, under the horizon line, and the top plane ends over the horizon line. I don't know why, but it just looks weird to me. (I mean, a lot of stuff kinda looks weird in this, but especially those kind of forms.)

Fun to see all the activity in here :), here myself adding some stuff to a plane doing a very loosely A-10 based plane to turn around. Has to remind myself to be sure to check constistency within the basic three sets of lines. Proportions...ah, well..

Thank you for the demo, it feels so well timed! It's really interesting to see what we're currently learning extended in this way.

Gave the plane a go, and after an embarrassing start it took of somewhat. Then moving on to the primitives and basic objects from the zolly app. Fumbling with the spheres and unexpectedly also with the cones. But going from blob->cylinder->box->cone to reason out, especially with foreshortening, made it clearer. Guess the few descriptive lines and connections makes it all the more so important with what's there in order to specify the forms and plane change. Then more primitive forms from the zolly app, with the sun chair not being my proudest accomplishment 😬 but also moving on with some improvement with the other objects. But either way, the brain cells was making some more connections i think. And while trying it out it opens up ways to go about it, as well as putting a light on problems to solve and creating a desire for learning more.

Copy that.