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Steve Lenze
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3yr
added comment inGetting into Beans
Hey Lucas,
Remember the bean is the torso and pelvis and how they relate to each other. In the picture of the three women we are looking up at them, so the lower part of the bean would overlap the upper part. You also are showing the top of the bean, which we wouldn't see because of the perspective. I did a sketch to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
Lucas
3yr
Thanks for the help again, @Steve Lenze !
But I'm a bit confused, the left woman has her pelvis/legs in a plane somewhat parallel to the paper (both her knees are pointing to the right, the pelvis even more parallel) while the chest area seems to be turned towards the view, so less parallel to the plane of the paper. Isn't it so?
I tried sketching using the mouse to show what i'm reading from the photo, but I might be wrong!
If what i'm reading is correct, then would the upper part of the bean overlap the bottom one due to the slight twist?
Cheers!
Today i had the first contacts with the bean videos. I still need to wrap my head around twisting and foreshortening, but this feels easier to approach than the gesture, at least at first.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on what i could be focusing moving forward.
Cheers!
Lucas
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3yr
Here's a few gesture exercises from today. tried focusing on making the lines of action longer and more expressive.
Tejas Keswani
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3yr
The gestures are good but I think you should start looking at figures more in 3d than just 2d photographs
For example in the 7th photo, Veronica's left leg is actually in front of her right leg, as in your drawing it seems behind, thus looking unnatural.
I'm not saying that you draw the whole but just indicate it with a cylinder or a box whichever you may like (I personally use the cylinder as it is anatomically more correct)
Other than that these look great
Nice work!
I certainly need to work on the 3 dimensionality of the forms, i struggle a lot when there are torsions, specially with the chest/hip areas or when there are body parts in different planes. I'll keep an eye out for that, thanks!
Lucas
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3yr
Continuing with the last few sketches. I'll keep an eye out for what @Steve Lenze mentioned!
These already show improvement from your old ones, nice work!
You did a good job in 2,4,7 and 9 as well as 3,4 and 6 using long continuous lines going through the whole figure to show movement. Try to do that all the time!
also nice work showing the tension in the calves in #6 (session 2)
for #5 session 1 I don't think using an s curve works very well, it makes the arm look like it has 3 joints. You can use 2 opposing C-curves to show how the shoulder and ground are pushing inward on the arm and show how the arm is bending in response to that. If you want to learn more about that sort of stuff I highly recommend checking out @Mike Mattesi 's videos on FORCE.
One more thing. You tend to make your legs a little bit short, which is fine for gesture drawing since we're not really worrying about proportion, but pay attention to it when you attempt longer drawings.
Hope that helped!
Steve Lenze
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3yr
Hey tiozebra,
I like what you have done here, you have really embraced the idea of gesture in your drawings. What I suggest is that you try to describe the pose from head to toe with as long of a gesture line as you can. Try to use "S" curves and "C" curves. Also, the limbs can be described with gesture lines as well. I did a couple of sketches to show you what I mean, hope it helps :)
Thanks a lot for the tip, Steve, it seems i've been focusing too much on specific blocks instead of looking at the figure as a whole. I'll post the last sketches i did, but i'll certainly keep an eye out to avoid this kind of mistake again.
Thanks for taking the time for the help, it really is appreciated!
Hello! I'd like to share the first two days of exercising gesture drawing. If there's anything that should be tackled fisrst to avoid bad habits or fundamental mistakes in how to convey gesture, please, let me know!
Cheers!
Lucas
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3yr
This is day 1 of gesture drawing. I have pretty much no experience drawing, so if there's a visible fundamental mistake, please let me know!
Hello, First, it's very bold to pubish what you did. If i try to be usefull, i think its too early to draw gestures in a limited time (2mn)
I personnaly tried but i saw I don't have enough experience to get a proper job in a limited time. The final goal is learning and pratice/repeating allows to be faster. Stan got a huge experience but we do not (at least me)
Pick a photo and repeat again and again gesture to gather all understanding of the pose (perspective, weight etc.) helps me to improve and put what I learnt in others poses. And then you can do it in 2mn.
Takes a life time.
Hope that helps
