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Peter Bajzek
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1yr
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Been waiting for this lesson! Figure drawing is my primary interest. I've made good progress using Michael Hampton's gesture approach, but hoping this will help me start to flesh out my drawings beyond wireframes. I feel like some of my figures are "OK" but I'm struggling a bit so input is very welcome.
Florian Haeckh
1yr
Hi Peter, I hope it is okay, if I try to give some feedback to one of the poses. I think it is already quite successful. It reads very clearly and you captured the s-curve through the body very well. However where it falls short is in my opinion depth and dynamism. If you look at his arms and legs, you'll see that they are very similar in size. If you want to encrease a sense of depth you can achieve this (among other ways) by having the limb that is further back in the picture to be smaller. That happens in the photo btw but you made them a bit equal. Another thing would be to avoid parallels or almost parallel lines as you have them in the arms and legs. By tapering the limbs towards the ends you avoid parallel lines. There was a great lesson by Mike Matessi about this in this course. You can go back and rewatch it. For me that was an eye-opener. I made a digital sketch to illustrate my points.
Peter Bajzek
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1yr
Hello, @Mike Mattesi , I've been a huge fan of your first book for a long time, and I'm very glad to see your contribution to this course. There's one idea I've struggled with a bit, in regards to the "straight-to-curve" concept (or the related "CSI" line formations): It seems often a "straight" can actually be a slight curve, or perhaps a few small curves might be treated together as a larger straight. Am I being too literal or is it possible to view a particular line differently depending on context or what we're comparing it against?
Hello Mike, I’m out to learn as much as possible to perfect all that I do in art and realize knowing how to draw gesture in the human body and in other species is vital so I look forward to learning from you 😊🙏
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1yr
that's correct. a "straight" can be many things but not contend with the power of the FORCEFUL curved side. : )
Peter Bajzek
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1yr
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Another fun assignment. I did many more of these but will only attach a few.
