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Okay so, I've been trying to grasp the Robo bean for literally months now, and I just can't figure it out. I've tried following along with the examples to no avail and I've tried tons of different ways of visualising them to no avail.
I've tried to move on to the next parts of the course, but I can't grasp those either. I'm at a total loss as to what to do next.
Brando Gould
9mo
Also just to follow up, if this is really challenging, perhaps take a look at the drawing basics course! I have been drawing for years and it has helped me MASSIVELY!
Brando Gould
9mo
I had a SUPER hard time at the beginning. I think the most important parts of getting started with the robo bean are...
1. Understanding gesture. (That main line that follows the path of the head, ribcage and pelvis) This will be the starting point.
2. Seeing the left and right shift of the forms. *
*So for the ribcage: Can you see more of the left or the right side of it? If yes, draw the box with the side you can see more of in perspective. This is the main thing we are training to see. Left, right or straight on.
3. Is the rib cage tilting away from us or towards us? Same idea as #2, but a little harder in my opinion. This is where you have to imagine the top and the bottom of that box and make a judgement of whether the tilt is toward/away from you. Helpful to know, if you can see the TOPs of the shoulders, thats a good indication that the tilt is towards you.
To me, making sure these boxes that represent the rib cage and pelvis are accurately drawn in proportion is the most important part of this exercise, but adding the understanding of overlaps (squash and stretch) make this an even more valuable tool to understanding how to draw 3d forms on a 2d surface. It ain't easy!
Hope that helps! Good luck
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Sometimes, all you can do is keep going. Can I see some of your Robo bean drawings?
I just read a roadmap for what they plan to do with the Proko website and one of the things they mentioned among other things was allowing one on one meetings between an instructor and a student.
This roadmap was several years old and included a bunch of goals that as far as I know still haven't been reached. Such as a mobile app. Does anybody know if they're still planning to add these features?
This has been kind of devastating for me as I've taken other courses on other sites, but never dabbled in gesture drawing. I feel like there's something I'm not getting, or do I just need to keep practicing?
One of my biggest issues is that on demonstrations the drawings look well proportioned, but all of mine, particularly those where the character is bending in an unusual way the body looks kind of horrifyingly misshapen.
Any advice for what I'm doing wrong/right? Ways to improve?
Also, I think the lines are really light, so apologies for that. I think I'll use a darker pencil in future.
Thanks.
Keep practicing, I've been here too and it's frustrating. I'm not amazing yet but I look back at my old ones and can see the improvement. You'll look back at these as well some day and see the difference.
consistency, consistency consistency! A lot of art colleges (at least here in the uk) don't really teach us this stuff, so proko is goodfor that. But consistency is what will drive you to the finish line.
Something that has helped me in keeping my proportions (sort of) right is to draw one big overarcing action line and then drawing two lines indicating the shoulderline and the waist. This roughly halves my action line (since leg length is about half the body length).
Just wondering, is there a download link for the reference images? Or do we just have to take a screenshot of the video?
There are some references that can be downloaded. I just pause the video and draw. If you are just looking for references there are some free sites too https://community2.lovelifedrawing.com/c/reference-library/
