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Hello, I'm currently studying the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. I'm aiming to do gesture exercises as a warm up before study sessions. I still find gesture quite difficult to grasp. I often run out of time or I get too hasty and feel like I could have used my time more carefully. Proportion feels very challenging. I'm not sure how I could become better at it. It feels quite difficult to focus in general, there are so many concepts to keep in mind. I'm posting some 2 minute poses from today as my first test post. I'm very excited about Proko 2.0! I hope to learn to use this website quickly. I'm very grateful for any critique.
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Hi Kaitei, these are really nice! It's really impressive how much to get down and clean it is. These are just some suggestions: Since it's short warm ups, you want to get your brain/eyes to look for thinks like tilt of the shoulder and pelvis (maybe ribcage too depending on the pose) and gesture of the torso>limbs. So that you're sorta automatically looking for those things when you get to the main body of your session. Also, I find that seeing various examples of expressive gesture, while also applying how Stan describes gesture/flow, can be helpful in understanding the effective ways gesture works. Diego Lucia has nice simplified figures https://www.instagram.com/p/CITB_hBDwc9/ This person Richard Powell really strips it down https://www.instagram.com/p/COg-hWpjCfX/ In terms of proportion, it's really something that people get a lot better at with experience, so don't be to concern about it too much at this point. The best thing do get better at this point is: after you've drawn some figures, go back and look at them, and determine and note what proportions are off, draw a little attempt to amend those proportions next to it. I don't know where you're up to, in the course, but Stan will touch on his method and tips to figure proportion out But yeah, these look good. It's great seeing all the work. Good Luck, Peace out.
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