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Hi @yawned_eyes, these are really nice! I looked at your previous post and wow, you have really improved! Congratulations!
-One way to push your gesture skills further would be to exaggerate the gesture. And I mean REALLY exaggerate it (you could even break the anatomy for the sake of more gesture). You don't have to pick this up as a habit in all your work, but it's a great exercises that stretches your mind (kinda like the Caricature of a Caricature exercise).
I aim at making my gesture quicksketches more gestural than the reference. This is to avoid stiffening up the pose. In some of these, though very subtle, the gesture is a little stiffer in the drawings. In the top right one for example. His right leg is more stretched out out and his left leg more bent in the photo.
Hope this helps :)
Started digital art half a year back and only recently tried to learn figure drawing. I'm running in circles stuck on one lesson for I am not satisfied with my 'quick' sketches. send helppp thanks
Something i learned that may help (especially with later lessons): try to accurately depict the center line, with more on one side than the other unless it is straight on. This goes for the head and the torso: usually its an egg shape (or circle) and with one accurate angle marking the center line, your proportion will soar to new heights! If that line happens to be a gestural line, it will tie the whole sketch together. Hope that helps (:
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4yr
Don't worry you'll get better every time you do these practice sessions. They are the most brutal training I think. When I first started doing them I would have near panic attacks lol or start questioning my life. It's hard. Things that will help is to not try to get the entire figure down in the 2 minutes. If all you get is the head indication and action line with some upper body info then great. I'd try to draw circle for the head then sweeps for the shoulders then action line from pit of neck down to floor. Looking for a well balanced frame work. Then as you get faster at that you'll be able to draw in more and more information on that frame work. We start building up speed and a database in our memory to pull from. Takes a lot of time! Be patient and disciplined to keep practicing. You are doing good! Keep going!
Hi there, nice work! I think starting on quick gestures can be quite hard. I still struggle with it! Often you see artists quick sketches that look amazing but they have cleverly hid a lot of other fundamental drawing skills. I would work on thinking of the figure as cylinders and boxes for a bit. Working out which orientation in space those arms and leg cylinders are going and then thinking about gesture. If your figure form is solid you will always start from a good base. But yeah these things take time to learn, like literally years, so don’t beat yourself up. If ever your struggling try learning something else that you think would help you tackle that problem.
