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Marco Sordi
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3mo
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2024/9/8. Good morning everybody. I've just finished this long drawing after watched the course from @Jeffrey Watts and @Watts Atelier instructors. The course provides some general information about Reilly figure drawing method but honestly is too short compared to the price. For those who are thinking to buy it keep in mind that is just an introduction: interesting but not enough to learn how to apply the method to different poses. Also there's no section where you can upload your assignment and, apparently, there are no feedback or critique. Anyway I'd like to have the opportunity to study at Watts Atelier from life someday so I had an idea about the environment and the course contents. Fair enough.
@rgale
2mo
Taking this course on here and watching their YouTube channel is what led me to taking online classes at Watts Atelier. You learn way more on there than the short classes on here. Another thing, look at other Reilly method sources like Ron Lemen (he has a YouTube channel) and his old Imagine FX articles from 2008 which explain way more on the Reilly method. Some other good sources are books like "Mastering Drawing the Human Figure" by Jack Faraggaso. He was a student of Frank Reilly. One thing I will say is, I personally believe the Reilly method needs a decent knowledge of anatomy to fully understand it since you are drawing the figure using bony landmarks and muscles rhythms and connecting them like a gps. If you know anatomy well, the Reilly method acts like a gps for the human body where you can never get lost. I love it.
@rgale
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7mo
I honestly would go through the previous lessons again just to see how much you have improved. I've been through the figure drawing course a million times over the past 2 and a half years.
Vynn
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2yr
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When or where are we supposed to use the bean ? I don't see any examples of the bean being used in a figure drawing, so I'm wondering what its purpose is. Should I add a bean in my gestures?
I use it depending on the pose. I put it in the same category as gesture. Depending on the pose, you can use the CSI gesture method or the bean method to quickly get the pose down on paper. The robo bean can also be used over the bean.
