Need of Criticism with My Gesture Drawings
5mo
Darion Matehuala
These are my first 65 gesture sketches I’ve drawn over the first 2 weeks. Most of them are 2-min drawings, but there’s also some 30-sec and 1-min sketches then and there occasionally.
I've been experimenting with how I draw gestures because I feel like during the middle of the first 2 weeks, I keep making the torsos too long, so I decided to have a very simplified ribcage and pelvis model as reference for my drawings.
The poses are definitely stiff on most of these, but regardless, I’d like to be given feedback so that I can improve and draw people very well!
(I’ll attach the reference images in this thread.)
Hey Darion, Good job doing all these, you picked some good figures to do gestures from.
The problem you are having is that you are too concerned about the contour of the figure and not enough on the actual gesture.
You need to find "S" and "C" curves that describe the pose from top to bottom, then look for those rhythms in the limbs also. build your figure out of these gesture lines, then add some structure and perspective to help sell the pose.
I took a couple of your references to show you what I mean, I hope it helps :)
Here are some of my references. My apologies for a few of them having bad image quality.
