Figure Drawing Fundamentals
Gesture
The Bean
Structure
Landmarks
Robo Bean
Mannequinization
Balance
Exaggeration
Proportions
Measuring
Shading
Figure Drawing Demo
Closing Thoughts
Figure Drawing Critiques – The Bean
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Critiques of students’ drawings based on the Bean lesson.
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@jeremiahmurphy01
6mo
Been practicing and feel a bit comfortable with the beans more! I hope these read well :)
Phil
7mo
Drawing along the demonstrations. A lot of things I missed or overlooked the first time I did it. Time to move onto the critique section.
so much time spent on beans loll, but I love it!
Filippo Galli
7mo
And with this, I've drawn over 100 beans in 4 days.
Stupendous.
Onto the next section of the course!
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7mo
That's a lot of beans! Lookin good.
@nullmyriad
7mo
These are 1 minute bean studies. Making round marks using my whole arm and not just my wrist is something I'm working on in these studies. May need to review some twist and lean examples. If anything else stands out, I'd love to hear critique
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7mo
These are perfect! Only critique I might have is that you could push these beans further.
Squash, pinch and, twist them till they break.
@howling
8mo
these are my 30 sec bean drawings, I would love some feedback/criticism on my beans.
Huy Vuong
9mo
Here's my take on bean gestures 2mins
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9mo
Nice! These look great, you can really feel the squash in each one. You've made them all feel like they have real depth and volume, they seem to be moving into or out of the picture plane. Keep it up!
@yoyoy12
9mo
after watching critique
@gog
1yr
i tried looking for waist pinches and drawing the spheres around that, any advice on how im going wrong is helpful.
@lindashelton422
1yr
Jack Mills
1yr
Here are my beans, would love to hear feedback.
Brando Gould
11mo
i have to agree with @jverme2r , also a different tool like a pencil will allow you to make more soft forms of the ovals and then darken the are for the pinching, which will help you and the viewer understand the shape and form better! Good luck
@jverme2r
11mo
I think it would be better if you express 'twist' in a little more exaggerated way
Alexia BF
1yr
My take with the Bean exercice!
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here are my bean assignments before watching the critique video
Lynn Fang
2yr
Beans assignments before watch critiques. Not good, just to mark the level at the moment.
Btw, I really appreciate these sentences of critiques of Stan: "Think of each one of these as a drawing you're going to frame and put up on a wall some where. You shouldn't just go through the motion really quickly, just to get it out of the way. If you're going to practice, do it correctly. TRY TO DO SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE PROUD OF." These are medicines for me.
@diko
2yr
Did some beans. Please write what you think :-)
Lynn Fang
2yr
Great job!
Eveline Rupenko
2yr
Here are some of my beans after I've watched the critiques videos
วิรุณ ขันทอง
2yr
Here's my attempt at a bean study. I don't know how to say much. But I tried my best.
Muhammad Jacobs
2yr
Bean Study excercise, the red ones are me following the video examples. I think what Proko meant by "designing the shapes" is perhaps by distorting the bean shapes to fit the reference maybe? You can see me often flattening the top/bottom of the beans to show a contrast in angles.
Jenna Shinn
2yr
can I ask what you guys are drawing on when you're doing critiques? just out of curiosity :).
Sinéad Erin
2yr
Here's my bean sketches, critique is very welcome. :)
Chris Martin
2yr
I like these, they have nice shape. I would like to see soft construction lines underneath to add to the fullness of these volumes
Pali Espinosa
2yr
Here is the assignment, all the beans.
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