Bean Assignment Examples – Twist

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Bean Assignment Examples – Twist

Lesson by

Stan Prokopenko

in Figure Drawing Fundamentals

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Assignments 84Lesson NotesDownloads 1

Draw the Bean

This week, practice drawing the bean from the pose photos at proko.com/poses. It shouldn’t take you more than 30 seconds to a minute for each pose. Look for tilting, leaning, twisting, and foreshortening. Exaggerate the motion and draw the two volumes, the skin in between, and the centerline.

John Torres

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3mo

Okay, I think my new approach toward form twist is working. The main issues I seem to encounter, have to do with adding the secondary crease and properly moving the center line across the form. Deciding if there should be a secondary crease still seems to be hard to determine. I think it only seems to be prominent on beans with S-shaped centerlines, but not all of them. If there is a significant pinch on one side, even if there is a significant twist, there is no secondary crease. Overall I consider this a success for my understanding of the bean. I just need to refine my instincts with how I juggle all these problems quickly.

Dave Lord

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6mo

these are from the video, will add more from other reference and from imagination. feedback welcomed!

Gannon Beck

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6mo

Lookin' good!

Melanie Scearce

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6mo

Looks like you had fun with these. Nice work!

Gannon Beck

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6mo

Bean practice.

Jonatan

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7mo

Bean Twist studies, saw the video, did my interpretation of the bean, then saw stan and did a new one accordingly, some beans have many tries before seeing stan's demo, feedback appreciated!

Melanie Scearce

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7mo

You did a nice job of following the cross contour lines in the squish areas. A few of these feel a bit top heavy, but you've done beautifully overall!

Vue Thao

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10mo

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These are my practice drawings for the twist assignment. I still need to work on making my lines less stiff with my beans. I had the most trouble with the poses of the models lying on their side. If anyone can help me with the looseness of my lines, like with the gestures exercises, that would be very much appreciated.

@thesmokingrotoscope

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1yr

Back with more beans! This one proved particularly tricky, so I'm probably gonna go back to the original video and watch the section on the twist after I go through the foreshortening demo. I've been using the models from the video, but have avoided copying Proko's example and have instead tried adapting based on his results in an attempt to notice any mistakes in my work.

angelina andreas

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1yr

Phattara Groodpan

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2yr

Jesper Axelsson

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2yr

Nice! I think you did a good job capturing the position of the bean! - I would be extra mindful about the proportions of the torso: the upper part is taller than the lower part. The hips are of equal width to the ribcage in a male. In a female the hips are wider than the ribcage. - Sometimes I feel like the middle mass between the ribcage and pelvis is undefined. Rather than two parts, it might help to think of the bean as three parts. Two modified balls for the ribcage and hip, and a mass inbetween. - Think about how you can use line weight to communicate things such as force, overlaps and form. Stan talks about line weight in this video Line Weight Hope this helps :)

Eveline Rupenko

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2yr

here is my Twist Assigment! I usually draw along with Stan using the video above.

lemmy daniel

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1yr

very appealing line

Benjamin Green

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2yr

very nice job.

Helen Ali

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2yr

some of these I seen differently and looked and worked until I seen them the way you did. Others I seen differently and worked on them and worked and looked and finally just drew them the way I thought they were. I circled the numbers of the ones I had most trouble with.

Genivieve LeDuc

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2yr

Figure Structure practice

@pmak22

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2yr

So I tried something new with this twist examples. First I watched the video with the right side covered, doing my best to figure out how to do the twist, then I watched the video with both sides uncovered and drew in green the major differences. Things I noticed were that I really struggled with the twists that didn't have a C curve, in other words the twist stuff. I found my use of the S curve was very under represented. I also seem to have a crutch where I always thing there needs to be a C or straight line on one side, not quite understanding that the both sides can be twisted (like in the towel example from the first video). Overall I liked this sort of guess approach and will try it again with the other example videos.

Howard Chiang

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2yr

8/4/22: Draw-along to the video. I found Twist much more difficult than Tilt & Lean. Any critique is welcome!

Howard Chiang

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2yr

#7 should actually be two different sketches!

@njones

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2yr

At 1:23 he draws a bean that he demonstrates in the figure drawing critiques. The center curve on the bottom of the bean faces the opposite direction when he redraws it. Maybe someone from the team should update the videos so that there is one correct example. It's confusing.

Sandra Süsser

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3yr

Bean Twist. I had a hard time figuring out the overlaps in the beginning. My mind always perceived it the opposite way. But when I focused on following the s curve of the body / the twisted centre line instead of the shoulder and hip rotation it got easier. I guess this is the hardest part of the bean for me. Going to keep practising.

Victor Valverde Perez

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3yr

Beans are kind of fun, Gets difficult with twisting + tilting First set is Marcia as ref second is Chanon

@nothanks

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3yr

Beans looking good. As you progress, this is a nice way to warm up before studies :)

Laura Estrada

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3yr

Great job! I like that these beans' poses are very clearly legible, and there's lots of them -- so, lots of practice! I think if you wanted you could take on an extra level of challenge -- how about beans in perspective, with foreshortening?? :0

Josh mcgrath

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3yr

@Jesper Axelsson Hey I've been drawing beans the twist and while I understand how it's an S curve I just don't understand how do the overlaps work sometimes I'll draw both sides having some form of overlap and only 1 side will other times I'm so sure can see an overlap yet when I see it drawn there's no overlaps is there is there some way to notice what kind of overlaps are happening?

Jesper Axelsson

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3yr

These beans are great! I found it hard to understand the overlaps too. But once I got to the robo bean I started to understand them. If you imagine 4 strings going from the ribcage box to the corresponding corners on the pelvis box, then give the robo bean a twist, you'll notice that the strings overlap in a certain way. Before I had gotten to the robo bean I just stuck to the rule that the overlaps should follow the gesture of the centerline. Let me know if this answered your question :)

Dreux Eaton

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3yr

This is my own practice of the bean. Feedback is appreciated.

Josh mcgrath

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3yr

Hey I have to say these beans look quite solid and clean. I would suggest you push the bean a bit more to really capture the moment example make the tilt go further. Another thing I'd add is a bit more of an overlap for example with you bean on the bottom right corner of the first page I feel if you added a fold to show how compressed the bean is it's really help with the pose.

Will Lively

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3yr

Hey Everyone, I’m working through the bean section of figure drawing and I’m having some issues. Did anyone else find the way the center lines were drawn a little inconsistent, particularly during the twist? In the explanation Stan mentions an S-curve, but more often than not he draws the same curve just canted a bit. I’ve attached an example. I’m sure I’m just misunderstanding so if someone can just explain why we wouldn’t do the s-curve here that’d be great. Thanks! will

Jesper Axelsson

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3yr

Good question! The reason he draws two c curves is because he's considering the form of the ribcage ball and hip ball. The centerline acts as a crosscontour line. Structure will be taught in the next lesson, and there you'll learn about crosscontours (lines that you wrap around an object, as if you were putting a rubber band on it, to show it's orientation in space. Like longitude and latitude lines on a globe.) Both balls are rotated away from us to the left, therefore the crosscontours are bent the same direction. The ribcage has a more bent crosscontour line, since it's more rotated away from us. But why not an s-curve? Instead of thinking "s-curve equals twist", think that "a twist can cause an s-curve". Whether you end up with an s-curve or not depends on the angle. If we were to rotate the model to the right, so that the hip is turning away from us to the right, while the ribcage is still turning away from us to the left, we will have an s-curve centerline. Hope this answers you question :)

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