Preston
Florida
I am a beginner artist that loves to learn and loves that art has a lot of that to give. I hope to tell stories with my art someday.
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Mimi T.
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4yr
added comment inHow to Draw Gesture – Step by Step
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I’d love some advice on how to improve my gesture drawings. It seems every time I do a gesture, I follow the contour of the body more so than motion. I also have trouble exaggerating the pose because I draw what I see and the poses often become stiff. Any tips or advice?
Preston
3yr
Hi! I'm by no means an expert, but I'd like to try and help. First off, I really like these. Personally, I can 'feel' the gesture, but I can also see what you mean about your issue with following the contour.
For this I have two pieces of advice.
First, you should try limiting the amount of time you spend on gesture drawing. If you're achieving these drawings with a 30 second timer per pose then I would say give yourself even less time, 10 to 15 seconds, and do your best to get the essential lines needed to capture the gesture- even if the result looks like a stick man. You probably only need to go that quickly enough times to train your self to simplify what you see before returning to 30sec + poses. I think the best way to stop following contour to stop giving yourself enough to to think or overthink.
Second, I would advise watching this Proko video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j39NqwL7s4. It's a step-by-step video of Proko drawing gestures with explanation. What you want to do for each pose is:
Step 1. Pause the video and attempt the pose yourself.
Step 2. Resume the video and follow along with the example.
Step 3. Go back and attempt the pose a third time on your own.
Following this 3 step process when watching these examples really helped me see where I tended to make mistakes and overthink when drawing gestures.
Hope this can be of help to you! Good luck with your studies!
DuDung Tak
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4yr
Asked for help
Here are my robobean submissions, i think my form is still wobbly, any other bad habits in my beans? Thank you.
Hey there! I think you did pretty well at capturing the twisting and leaning in a lot of the poses. However the perspective and foreshortening is inconsistent. I think if you improve the structure of your boxes that it will fix the wobbly-ness you mention. I am a beginner, but I hope what I've mentioned can help. Keep up the practice and I'm sure you'll see improvements.
Preston
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4yr
Asked for help
My first round of Robo Bean practice. The top two were done following the Step-by-Step example videos. The rest were done on my own from references. I'm fairly new to figure drawing so I am not as concerned with the proportions as I am with clearly defined 3D forms and gesture. I noticed I struggled with "seeing" the boxy forms in some of my figures, often over or under rotating the torso or hips. Is there something that stands out that needs work? Are these good enough to move on to the next lesson? Any feedback is appreciated!
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4yr
these look good. Some look a little long which is easy to do. I struggle with making the distance from the bottom of the box (10th rib) to the ASIS too long. I would just keep a lookout for that when drawing figures. I think you're fine to move on and also do use this exercise again. It's a great way to warm up before going into a study session. I did that myself today. Never stop reviewing the fundamentals. Great studies!
