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@shao
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Hi@Liandro, I will be greatly appreciated if you give me some critiques on my exercise,. Thank you
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4yr
Hey @shao, I think it looks nice! It certainly has a sense of volume and 3-dimensionality to it. In some areas, such as the head and the bottom of the ribcage, the proportions seem to have gone off a bit (nothing that a few adjustments wouldn't solve).
One thing that comes to my mind when I look at your drawing is that maybe you could try simplifying the mannequin's design a bit more. Not that you can't add layers of anatomy complexity, but, at least for me, keeping it simple usually helps a lot. I often try to approach this exercise in a way that keeps me as close as possible to the basic geometric forms (spheres, cylinders and boxes) - that means changing and adapting a lot of anatomical parts (and, sometimes, even letting go of anatomy completely), but I feel like the essence of studying the mannequin is not for the sake of drawing from the reference image per se, but, instead, for understanding how a complex structure such as the human body can be design from simple forms, that's why keeping the forms as simple as possible helps me with that. I've attached an example of how I usually do this kind of mannequin study, in case you might be curious.
As a suggestion, maybe you could play a bit more with the gesture, perhaps using a bit more exaggeration on it.
Hope this helps!
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Hi Shao! Nice work! I would recommend that you exaggerate the gesture more, try bending the forms to enhance it. I´ve given feedback to other people that you could try reading and see if it´s of any help to you https://prokolab.com/course-lesson/figure-drawing-critiques-mannequinization/discussions and https://prokolab.com/profile/lordkioki/activity
I would also recommend you work on your construction. Overall, I would recommend you ignore details in the contour. The feet for example would look much more structural if they were simple and clear doorstop shapes. Think as if you were actually building a model with simple forms and avoid compying small shifts in the contour.
Lastly, some of the cyllinders have incorrect ellipses; their minor axes don´t line up with the cylinders long axes and they sometimes seem to be showing the wrong direction of the form or aren´t round enough at the edges.
Hope this helps and good luck with your practice!
Hey Shao! It looks like you were trying to improve your work but struggled to figure out what could be changed to do so. I like to directly compare each of my finished sketches (via overlaying, grid, etc - you can even just put your paper over your reference screen on full brightness) and tracing on top of my previous sketch (in another color preferably) to physically make the correction and have "notes" of sorts. I look at what parts are the most different and make sure to focus on them with the next try. Keep up the dedication, hope this was helpful!
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Nice work, @shao! Good flow in the drawings. I'm wondering if you had a specific goal in mind when drawing the same poses several times.
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I think you're doing good, @shao! Definitely keep going and do a bunch more of these, maybe even in a smaller size, so you can fit at least 5 to 10 gesture sketches on one same page. Gesture is something that benefits from quantity, so work within a time window and sketch a lot. Hope this helps!
@shao
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4yr
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hi, l'm a new learner,l love drawing,this is my drawing exercises, l don't know how to draw,can you give me some critiques.thank you.
I'm not sure if this will help you, but when I am doing multiple tries of a pose I like to do the full set, correct them all, and then try the set again. Instead of repeating one until you are happy and then moving to the next. Gesture is all about the flow and energy in the piece, so while you should definitely be correcting your practice, it's initially more useful to provide yourself a variety of examples rather than thoroughly analyzing a few. Spacing out your attempts (while moving through the others in your set) will also let you return to each sketch with fresh eyes and better reinforce the memory what you are learning. It also helps me a lot with getting frustrated, knowing I don't have to get it right in order to move on makes practice a lot more relaxing and therefore learn more!
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@Lien Hoa has given you some good advice, @shao! And look at that, I just commented on your more recent post to sketch in greater quantity, now I see you're already doing it - that's cool! If you find repeating the same pose helps, then maybe you could experiment varying up the way you draw - for example, draw a few attempts starting with the head, then try varying it by starting with the feet or torso; or start with some very loose, messy lines with the first few attempts, then, as you move on, try to be more careful and assertive with your linework. The time when you're a beginner might be a great moment to explore and play around. Also, check out this video where Stan talks about how to draw from the shoulder, it's really a great help for gesture practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMC0Cx3Uk84
wowww my sketchbook looks like yours with many replicates of the same pose! I don't know how to critique but here's some motivation for us all: You're doing/practicing great, please keep it up! And your willpower to redraw the same pose that many times is really inspiring.
