Day 11 - Structure- 12 Days of Proko
11mo
Today's challenge is all about structure. That means boxes, cylinders, Loomis heads, mannequins, foreshortening, planes, and cross contour! Set your Proko timers to 10-20 minutes. This challenge is all about seeing complex organic forms and indicating them as simple 3D forms.. When combined with proficiency of gesture, you’ll become an unstoppable powerhouse for dynamic masterful figure drawings. Don't forget to share how you're doing and what you're learning along the way!
I have a lot of lessons on this (see below). Also, I just started the perspective section of my @Drawing Basics course, so the next year or so will be all about teaching you how to think 3D, apply it intuitively to organic forms, and how to add light and shading to make it look more 3D. If you join the course now and follow along with the assignments, you have a chance to be in the critique videos :)
Structure Basics – Making Things Look 3D
Mannequinization – Structure of the Human Body
How to Draw Structure in the Body – Robo Bean
One-Point Perspective
INSTRUCTIONS:
Go to https://proko.com/timer, select the Day 11 reference pack, choose the quantity and duration in the right sidebar, and start the session!
When you’re done, share your structure sketches by replying here in this thread for a chance to win some prizes.
PRIZES:
3 Drawing Basics Courses
3 Proko Model Packs
1 Proko Skull
LIVESTREAM:
Marco Bucci is holding a livestream today at 10:00am PST. Come hang out and draw with him as he uses the new Proko Timer tool.
Link to stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRiT-E9J55Y
If you want to support all the amazing instructors and the team making all this possible, and get yourself ready with some premium courses for the new year, the best deals are the bundle packs on the home page - https://proko.com. Bundle packs and the “12DAYS” discount code can be combined for the biggest discount during our holiday sale :)
I have an uncle, a rancher in Idaho, who it is said has a very acute eye for seeing fine breeding in livestock and is hailed as superb at assessing ideal breeding.
I don’t equate the models chosen in these packs to be scrutinized for their fine breeding, but the human anatomy absolutely delights me to see. So many elegant structures in both the male and female subjects. It’s astounding to me. To think, for example, the knee of that model in my 4th drawing, has so many intricacies with bone, then the tendons, and muscle that flows in and out of such a joint, blows my mind. It captivates me, and I have much of study ahead to grasp the underlying structure to be able to render it right and be proficient at creating figures from scratch (and sculpting will be a huge passion of mine when I have the proper comprehension of human anatomy’.
My 15-minute sketches for Day 11. I tried to work on perspective simultaneously. Those ellipses make me mad haha. But maybe, just maybe, I'm getting the hang of it. The more you do something, the more you understand.
I wanted to spend 20 minutes, but got carried away and the work took about 1 hour. I don't know human anatomy very well, but I tried to express the shapes the way I feel them.
I did a 20-minute drawings in which I did the structure with a coarse brush, then refined only the visible points with a finer brush.
We haven't really gotten too far into structure in the drawing basics course yet.
Followed along with Marco Bucci's stream. Tried to capture flow/weight. Poses ranged from 5-15min.
10 min + 20 min for the last 2, as usual i fix my lack of structure with gesture.
I had nothing but fun the entire time! I've included a page of one minute drawings, a five minute drawing and then the rest were15 except for the women who took 20.
20 minutes each. It seems like a lot of time but I'm really slow.
I finally had the time to rewatch the stream and tried using some of the tips. They were pretty useful.
Although, it was though for me to draw both gestures and structure.
I haven't really used the pencil as the main drawing in a long time so I struggled defining the shapes (maybe if I'd used more of the paper or a bristol paper I'd have easier time) so I switched to a fine liner.
Also, it seems I'm not really capable of constructing the heads. Maybe if I used more time I'd be able to focus on analysing the shapes in the face. (And my knees suck)
This was a great challenge. Okay (Me), remember cylinders, boxes, Loomis head and execute in perspective in 10 minutes per photo. I left the eraser marks on because I wanted to see what was wrong and correct the direction to go. These are Charcoal on newsprint. Stan's videos on the mannequin construction were very helpful giving me clear instructions on what to look for when drawing. More practice is definitely warranted.
Followed along with Marco Bucci's stream yesterday while also sorrrrta trying to practice FORCE, but probably lost a little of it as the session went by.
I see that I missed the assignment of structure because I was getting too lost in following instructions 🤔
new concepts for me!!
Asked for help
Okay, here is a sense of community, question, not trying to be lame, but truly wishing to understand. I love this live stream and this instructor.
i want to know more detailed on how he has determined our eye level (horizon) is barely established above the feet, in this shot, in about 45 minutes into the livestream. I’ve drawn in purple, where the camera horizon line would certainly be place, or maybe just at the knee level.
This is important to me. I suck at drawing, but I have a good sense of special 3D awareness, and if we had to get super academic, I think I could get many experts to agree that the camera lens view on this shot would put the horizon line at just below thr knees (I’m starting to slide in how high I thought it).
So, not to challenge the awesome instructor, but I guess I want to really know how he defines our “eye” and is it the same as the camera lens, or is he using another means of reference to where our “eye” is.
His line is so close to that oval disk that I just don’t grasp if our (or his eye level view) is different than that of the camera lens.
Since After beginning the post, I’ve opted to drop my line to just below his knees, to match the camera level.
I watched all the videos that were pasted. They are very interesting. I was excited. Thank you for creating helpful videos. I have to more practice structures.
im still not too sure on how to give my drawings the volumey gesture effect :,) but i tried! very fun
