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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
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FREE eBook on Rhythms! Get my handy guide teaching you how to draw the rhythms of the body.
In this lesson, I'll show you how to capture dynamic gesture and flow in a complex foreshortened pose. We’ll tackle essential techniques for observing and breaking down challenging perspectives, analyzing the angles and capturing the specific rhythms of the pose. You’ll see the importance of finding the overall flow before rendering details and how directional lines, thoughtful mark-making, and an understanding of anatomy allows us to bring energy and motion to a pose. There’s even some tips for conveying depth and foreshortening with a few strategic decisions.
Want more? The premium Drawing Basics course provides more insights into achieving believable proportions and capturing dynamic shapes in your drawings. The course is a thorough and approachable starter for any beginner or intermediate who wants to get a really solid foundation of fundamentals to draw anything from reference or from imagination.
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Demo - Dynamic Shapes from Reference
Draw Any Pose From Any Angle - Rhythms
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It’s time for the level 2 rhythms demos! I’ll be doing more quick figure sketches but this time I’ll be taking them a little bit further with additional large anatomical rhythms.
I try to make every possible mistake and then fix it, so it takes me quite a bit of time, I’ll try to shorten the time later on.
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6d
Speed will come with practice, so don't stress too much about it. These look great!
Hello everyone,
I'm sharing a few sketches from levels one and two. Different times, different tools.
30-second poses are always a challenge!
Best regards 😊
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5mo
It’s really cool how you use color to separate the different drawings. Your pages are so chaotic but still clear.
Very difficult to do and you’re great at it.
I always have difficulties with the same topic... I still find myself drawing the picture 1:1 instead of focusing on the rhythm and understanding the form as such. Once you understand the form, you can adapt it - which is something I really want to learn! Any advice is very welcome:-)
Here is my attempt for level 2! I did 5 minutes per pose. I tried the overhand grip and its hard. I am not used to it but I tried in some areas. Mostly did it regular grip. This attempt is before watching the level 2 demo. Any feedback is welcome :)
In demo2 the width of calf is not accurately captured, i am not sure why this decision is made.
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11mo
Great observation @Sumit Gupta. For the purpose of this exercise, we are more so depicting the rhythmic movements of body than spending time making sure that all anatomical structures are correct. In this demo I noticed Stan made the hands and feet small in comparison to the arm and leg also, and the arm longer. I interpret this as a stylistic choice to emphasize the energy moving down through the arms and the legs and focusing more on the shapes that support that rhythm. The anatomy is important of course and there is a time and place to draw it accurately, but for this exercise, finding the rhythm is king.
attempts based on the video one before and one after the demo I think I need to practice ignoring detail and thinking of the figure as more of an abstract shape. Any critiques are welcomed.
Tried drawing with new references, with a time limit of 4 minutes. However, as the reference I used was very muscular, coupled with the time limit, made it hard to capture the proper lines for the drawings. I think I'll put aside time limits for now, and focus on improving line quality and rhythm.
From new to old. I've probably done a hundred of these. Does it actually get better as you practice?
Attempt 1. Finding it really challenging working with the charcoal pencil, especially overhand, and also hard to focus on rhythms and not get caught up in contours and anatomy. Need to keep practicing this one.
These are strong attempts. I felt the same way with charcoal when I first started. I'm not a professional at it yet, but it's a great material for figure drawing. Just keep up the great work, you're on a solid pace.
I can see a solid progression throughout all of these sketches. If you keep up this pace, your gestures will improve greatly. Nice work.
I made the gesture lines and then added another layer on top. However, this may not be part of the assignment.
Your second layer adds many strong and accurate details, and your linework is solid. But just for the main assignment, your rhythms are also excellent. Great work.
Oooh perspective. That means… Marshal!? 👀 🥳
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2yr
maybe a guest conversation. no promises
Words can't described how much thankful I am of you Mr. Proko, you're a big help for us self taught artist someday i will be a great artist and i will be able to meet you Mr. Proko, thanks a lottt i downloaded your free ebook rhythm i will study it with my heart and mind...thanks a lot again mr. Proko ‹𝟹
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2yr
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I’m not level 2 yet, but hearing your deductive reasoning as you thought through each “problem” was enlightening. My approach needs to change, think through each part with simplicity. I’m over complicating it and I don’t break it down into digestible parts. My brain needs to slow down and reason through it.
Forgot to post these earlier. Skipped doing the ones Stan does in the demo since I want to watch the video and draw along.
Sorry for channeling my inner Rob Liefeld in some of these. I don't pay enough attention to my page space.
These are strong attempts. All of your poses feel rhythmic, but some tend to lose it with the edition of hard muscle shapes. Just keep an eye out for that, but otherwise great work.
Here's my first attempt after watching the lesson. Some stuff isn't quite clear yet, I'll draw these with Stan tomorrow.
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2yr
Very good! You're using the and applying it.
