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Jake Miller
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1mo
30s gestures! Rust? Off day? Well, on to the next!
Jake Miller
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2mo
Time for me to get more comfy posting my works online again! If for anyone, for myself to see how far I can go.
Jake Miller
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2mo
I have come to really love and enjoy gesture a lot that's it's almost all I want to do every day! I was feeling pretty comfortable with my natural gestures lately and I wanted to try doing it in different ways. I found someone else's gesture works and I LOVED how they looked, so I've been trying to emulate their style as I work on them.
Usually I do figures like this in about a minute, but I give myself 2 for style studies so I can take it a bit slower and observe the model and the reference and ponder a moment on how the other artist is thinking. I hope to incorporate a lot of this into my own.
There's another gorgeous gesture artist I've seen that uses a lot of shadow to define the shapes and barely any contour at all, absolutely stunning work, I wish I could find the originals I saw, but I had only seen them as an example in a video that I don't remember.
Jake Miller
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3mo
Asked for help
I should start posting my daily gestures. Where do I go from here? Will my gestures improve incrementally? Or am I to forever create gesture as appears here?
Jake Miller
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3mo
Asked for help
Week 2 of the challenge!
I think the rust is coming off, at least from today, I kind of had a comfort breakthrough again, it's good to get back into it.
I noticed I repeated a figure from the day prior, but I think they make for an interesting comparison since I had forgotten I'd done it.
Jake Miller
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3mo
Asked for help
A tad late, but this is a good start to scrape off the rust and study some more. I am much more comfortable with digital, but there's a mix here. Essentially all of the traditional ones were done on my train commute to or from work.
Also keeping notes! Found I really enjoyed it as I went along, really helped organize my thought process and post draw feelings.
Gyoon Ri
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3mo
Asked for help
Forgot how fun gesture can be, this was an awesome motivation this week!
First image is 1 minute, then the rest are all 5 minutes.
Jake Miller
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9mo
I rarely draw for myself, basically 90% of my art is just study. When I feel in a rut, just scribbling away aimlessly reminds me that I AM learning, and it also shows me my weaknesses in imagination.
Really it reveals a lot of wear I lack in fashion design, honestly it's very weak, but I don't think my fundamentals are strong enough to focus on something like that yet. Also a completely generic unreferenced sword because I think big swords are cool, could have benefit from a bit of reference, ahaha.
oh boy, I feel like my gestures suddenly got worse, that's worrisome. Suddenly too self-conscious about them maybe, I hope that this negativity doesn't stick. Somehow 2 minutes suddenly isn't enough and I can barely get anything done, this was never a problem before, just can't let it get to me.