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Shane Creps
Shane Creps
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Shane Creps
Easily would have to say Dave Rapoza
Shane Creps
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I feel like I'm struggling to see the motion when it comes to looking at poses. All of the sketches below are from the 'Quicksketch Assignment Examples- 2 Minuet Poses.' I want to improve, but I don't know where to being in building a stronger foundation.
Reed Clumpner
Hey Shane I think have some advise that may help. Looking at your drawings there is some nice stuff. You are simplifying and not focusing on the contours that much. Motion comes from the relationship of one part of the body to the next. For example in the attached photo you can see that the head sits farther to the left of the pelvis, even going a little past the left shoulder. In your drawing it is having a latter effect where all the parts of the body are fairly straight up and down with one another. If you have those photos available to breakdown I would recommend you put them in your software of choice, or print them out, and drawing straight lines from different parts of the body to see where they hit other body parts, or don't hit. I would also recommend that you start paying attention to the pelvis and the direction it is going. Many dynamic drawings have the shoulders going one way and the hips going another. You can see in the breakdown of the photo that her let shoulder is going and her right is going up, which you did capture (I would push the angle of the a little farther to really sell the that action). Now with the pelvis, I am not getting that it is facing a completely different direction than the shoulders in your drawing. I see you tried to indicate it with the contour lines, but I would do what you did for the shoulders to the hips as well. It will better sell the twist. I know I threw a lot at you, but these are looking promising. The last thing I would recommend if you can afford it is to check out Drawn to Life by Walt Stanchfield. It is like the bible of gesture drawing. I hope this helped, good luck!
@gekki
3yr
Hi Shane, I'm a complete newbie here but I think I have some helpful feedback. First, in all these gesture drawings you seem to separate the neck. I think that is a valid approach for general drawing, but in terms of gesture it forces you to break off the "main" gesture line, or the longest axis. For example in the drawing right under the "CSI" writing, the neck ends up being "correct" in terms of anatomy, the actual line that is there, but *harshly* breaks the gesture. Try drawing some gesture by including the neck within the longest axis, as a single line (unless the neck on the reference actually breaks gesture) The second thing I see is under-exaggeration, you really nail the gesture of subtle poses, where it is the subtle gestural lines that matter. On the more extreme looking poses, you seem to apply the same method/mindset that you apply to subtle poses, and you end up losing a lot of the energy from the said pose. Hope that is of any help, and if anyone with more experience could confirm or deny these conclusions would be welcome to do so
Shane Creps
This was a bit more challenging than I was expecting. I really struggle with seeing the flow in a lot of poses. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, but these don't look like I've retained any information. Feels like I should have been able to capture a lot more information in the two minuets provided.
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