I find myself struggling with gestures (getting them in the "right" place for correct proportions) and my figures always look strange. I have watched quite a few videos/classes - yours and others - thinking that if I keep learning it might click. Now I'm thinking maybe I need to be practicing more on my own - just trying to draw figures from references for a few days instead of just trying to "actively learn" Does anyone have experience with this kind of thing or thoughts? I might be too academically minded for my own good and skipping over the practice in favour of lessons.

I'm curious as to why you only use parallel lines during perspective. Are there cases where you use 2 or 3 point perspective, and if you did would you apply it during that step?

Annoying me? Nah. The insights are excellent and the view into your process is super helpful. So, can I assume then, that from stage 5, if you're going to costume the figure, you don't necessarily need to get to anatomy? I say this because I can imagine that when there are costumes that don't completely cover a portion of the body, say the upper body, you're gonna need to add the anatomy (or as much of it as you need/want to)?

I split the process into two drawings so I could remember how each step addresses the figure. Slowing down to analyze the same picture from different steps is a lot easier than trying to get it right on the first pass. Really enjoying the class.

enjoying Michael’s videos and his process breakdowns. Any feedback is welcomed.

I am finding the gesture very difficult. I watch the demos and I Michael Hampton does it effortlessly. I can somewhat mimic him but when I go to a pose that’s similar and attempt it on my own, I get overwhelmed. I can’t figure out if the thoracic gesture line is the contour or somewhere approximate. Same with the limbs: is it the edge of the arm or the middle? Anyone else struggling and can give some advice? Am I overthinking it? Thanks

Loving the course so far! Spent a long time deliberating which one to go with for figure drawing, so many great teachers here, think I made the best choice. Love your style of teaching and how everything builds on top of previous knowledge. Hope you will do a course on anatomy too some day.

First attempt at following along with instructor on step-by-step lesson. One can see my pelvis and egg and box do not align properly but I was pleased with the length proportion.

hello, choosing the right directions for wrapping lines trip me up a bit and proportions and perspective but I’m learning

Going to start using color pencils for each step when practicing on paper. Becomes a mess pretty quick!

Hello apologies for lack of reference but I feel like I’m really struggling in most areas especially perspective and proper form intersection, so I will share my studies of the day

240317 Sakura sketchbook. Mechanical pencil HB.

Tried this assignment with two different mediums (Charcoal & Graphite). Thought maybe I would branch out a little. Still think I need to work on gesture and finding the shapes within the figure. What do you guys think?

Followed the process, then immediately went to do one with a different pose. It's still pretty difficult especially the cylinders and ellipses for the body.

I followed along and then tried applying what we’ve learned so far on another pose. I think I somewhat got the shapes (maybe?) but it is definitely really hard when you’re not pointing out all the stuff like in the first pose lol one big thing I’m noticing is the thickness of the extremities is somewhat larger in my drawings and it’s because I’m not sure if the cylinders should be incorporating the width of the muscle or is it more just to denote direction/perspective and not the actual leg? Thanks! (photo credit @ the pose archives)

This lesson cleared up a lot of the questions I had from the last, though I still feel like I’m smooshing the lower legs. Any feedback is appreciated.

I had 9 lines from head to toe at first - that threw me for a loop!

This was hard, I almost gave up, but I kept going. Where do I need to improve? Any feedback is greatly appreciated!