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@davioli1
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4yr
added comment inHow to Simplify the Motion of the Torso – The Bean
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Hello! Here are my first 36 beans for any critics out there. Any comments and/or critiques will be appreciated
Thank you for your time :)
Pedro Kaponautas
4yr
These are very clean! Your line work is neat. Tho I kinda miss the spheres that should serve as the structure for the beans, some of these, like the bottom right one on the 4th page, gets a little flatten and confusing. Try to maintain the spheres (and even cross counter lines if needed) to have more solidity. Great work!
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15 beans, 1 minute each! I think I can capture the movement of the torso well actually, but I struggle when it requires perspective. Also my lines are pretty messy in most of these, sorry about that.
Hi Predo,
considering that these are 1 minute beans, they feel pretty good actually. Without the reference pictures, however, it is hard to tell whether the perspective is off. Judging from just your drawings I would say it's alright.
Besides your already mentioned line quality, which is an important point, I would say that you could look in to the spheres themselves.
- Some of your spheres look a little too stretched out, which doesn't correspond to the actual shape of a human body.
- In some cases, your sphere for the rib cage is a little too small in comparison to the pelvis, but just by a little. Keep in mind, that the rib cage is actually a little bigger in reality.
Hope this helps. Keep it up!! - Max
Pedro Kaponautas
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4yr
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Round 2 of my Quicksketchs exercises! I think I can feel more of the flow of particular forms, but I still struggle with proportion and even with the readability of the pose sometimes.
What helped me to get the readability of the pose to be clearer is to focus on finding the longest axis to find what is relevant to the pose. Also, assuming you did them in order, look how good the last 5 min pose is! I've found that you usually start out quite stiff, then after getting in to the flow, you do some great work. I sometimes do 30s, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 2 min, 1 min, 30 s just to get that 30 s quick sketch in when in the flow.
Hi! I can see what you mean with the proportions being a bit off in the 1 min sketches (legs got a bit shortened, I have this problem as well > <) But I just want to say I love your 2 min sketches ^_^ your lines are so clear and confident!
@winterpencil
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4yr
Hello! here are some of my 30 second, 1 minute and 2 minute figure drawings. I feel like there is some sort of secret sauce missing in my drawings but I can't figure out what it is. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! 😀
These are very fun! I particularly like the 30 sec ones. I think you are holding yourself to much on the outlines of the poses, this is not the focus of the exercise, but it's to instigate your feeling of a pose, action and character. Don't hold yourself to the solidity of the body, but embrace the fluidity of movement. To help this, I think you could warm up a little before starting actually drawing, just by scribling. And I always recomend trying to find one single main line, I feel like this helps alot when trying to sellout a dynamic pose. Great work!
Wow you got some really expressive poses! Though you might try to loosen up the way you treat form in general. Some of them are still kinda robotic and uncanny, try to FEEL the form. Also try to capture one single main line of action, this makes the pose more solid and vivid.
Newton Llorente
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4yr
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Hello everyone, these are 2-minute gesture drawings I've done for the past couple of days. I feel like they're a bit on the cartoony side and not that realistic/proportional. The way I drew these was by starting with the robo bean and then attaching the limbs.
Do I need to learn anatomy in conjunction with figure drawing to make my drawings look more realistic/proportional? Or should I just focus on figure drawing for now and worry about anatomy further down the line?
You seem to grasp very well the concept of the bean, but I feel like the way you're using it doesn't help very much when drawing gesture. Maybe try to find one main line on the figure first and after that you can add the adjacent lines for limbs (trying to keep the flow of the pose on them) and after that you can try to add the bean. About studying anatomy while studying figure drawing, you sure can do that, but Figure Drawing is the core basis in drawing human figures. If youre worried about structure you can give a go on the Mannequinization and proportions videos the course has to offer.
