Robin Darley
Austin, TX
I'm a digital artist and I'm currently working on polishing my drawing skills. Sometimes I stream art on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/mrsdarles
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Robin Darley
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4yr
Asked for help
Gesture, Bean and Landmarks Assignments. The gestures are not timed so I don't have an exact time limit on those, probably close to 2 and 5 minutes each. Any feedback is appreciated!
These are fun to draw :)
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4yr
Yeah, I agree :)
Nice job! You seem to have a good grasp of the bean!
I tried to look for things that could help:
TWIST
You seem to be getting the overlaps the wrong way. The overlaps should follow the gesture of the centerline.
LINE QUALITY
Most of your beans are nice and clean, but in some instances you seem to have multiple dark lines trying to indicate a single line. I looked through some of your other submissions and they have a similar issue.
Going through the figure drawing course is a great opportunity to practice your linework. If you want to improve your line quality I would recommend the following:
1. Watch this video and pick up the exercises
https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/how-to-hold-and-control-your-pencil/assignments
2. Revisit the 30 second gesture quicksketch exercise using what you´ve learned from the video above. Try to use as few lines (CSI) as possible ( In the gesture critique video @Marshall Vandruff recommends 5 lines (+ head) if you want to challenge yourself). Make long fluid lines with your shoulder without erasing or going over a line twice.
Don´t worry if things turn out wrong in a drawing, enjoy your mistakes and move on to the next pose. The goal is to develop a habit of clean line, accuracy will come after that. Gesture quicksketches takes little time and are in that sense forgiving, and fun :)
3. Post your gesture drawings for feedback
Linequality might feel intimidating, like a huge mountain you have to climb over before getting to draw what you want, but don 't worry, line quality is something you improve over time by doing the exercises in your warm-up routine, while continuing with the course.
I hope this helps and good luck :)
I didn’t do a strict time limit on these since I’m pretty new to gesture. I used some Force methods in this since that clicks a bit better for me.
Great gesture drawings, you can really read the pose and action well. The time limit I am also new to but I think it is good to use to become a bit more picky with what lines you put in since it can force you to draw longer flowing lines more.
No question, I'm just really happy with the site! Thanks for making a neat community for artists!
Tony Vu
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4yr
Asked for help
Hi, I tried simplifying some animals. This is proving pretty difficult so I'm going to need more practice. I'd love to hear any feedback anyone might have!
These look really good, I'm really impressed with your understanding of the basic forms of each animal. This has been a huge struggle for me and I can't seem to get it to click. Keep up the good work!
Robin Darley
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4yr
These look really good. There is quite a bit of information in them like you said. Your exercise in attempting the same pose side by side and making notes is something I'd like to try out too.
Robin Darley
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4yr
This looks really nice, the hair is lovely and you've captured a likeness to the reference. I did notice that the values on the face could use more contrast, adding in brighter sections of highlights/midtones on the face would help. Specifically on the cheek bones, forehead and chin. If you are interesting in doing this piece in color I would recommend this video by Dave Greco: https://youtu.be/LeZc-uYXv3Y
Hands are a big struggle for me so I would have omitted them too! Keep up the good work!
Robin Darley
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4yr
Very nice, you've got some good lively lines happening. Seeing different attempts at the same pose is really cool, that might be a useful exercise for everyone practicing gesture.