My notes from watching the video.

I have a question, does this thoracic spine line refer to the edge contour of the body or the direction of the thoracic spine?

Loved the free YouTube video, thank you

I decided to use Overwatch characters as a reference since I figured they'd have some interesting poses. The first two attachments are my drawings and the reference. The other attachments are poses I dreamed up with no reference, which is much harder! I don't know if these hit the mark at all, but they were super fun to do!

Really nice explanations. I get a sense that you introduce an accessible approach in parallel to the more complex considerations like weight distribution, body language/ emotional representation and customization of poses. My attempts at gesture have always felt clueless due to lack of a systematic approach, lack of anatomical knowledge and so on….so really appreciate this lesson….i should have watched it before attempting the project!

My drawings for this lesson.

Before and after Dr. Hampton's demo. Both terrible IMO 🥰

Mr. Hampton would I be correct in assuming that you are using photoshop to do these lessons? Do you ever use procreate? And if so, is there a brush that you prefer when doing gesture? Or any tips for creating one that is more responsive to pressure? It seems like you’re able to create light lines and build weight up on them so nicely. And the shading goes from grey to black as you build. I feel like no matter how much I adjust the settings of my brush im getting heavy pigmented/black line sooner than I would like.

I am using the Pose as a guide and drawing the gesture lines over this image. I love this still shot of Vigo Mortensen in "Apaloosa." His pelvis is arched, his chest is open and he is signaling control and force as he prepares himself for a gunfight. Previous to this scene, Vigo portrays an this character as an introvert, usually seated or crouched, quiet, disappearing. A very dramatic scene because of his body language, what he is signaling to himself and his opponent and his intention. This is the idea, the story of my gesture interpretation.

Some draw-alongs from the lesson.

Loving the course so far, even though it's definitely going to be challenging for a beginner like myself. There is something I don't understand. Perhaps I am falling into the trap of asking "what part is this", which you repeatedly have warned against :) But nonetheless.. I have attached a screenshot of the construction of the second pose; I am confused about the line that you describe as representing the thoracic spine. I just cannot relate the line you drew to the spine of the model, which from our viewing angle would seem to me to be nearly straight, certainly nowhere near as bent as you drew it. I am similarly puzzled by the line representing the spine in the other two poses, though it's not quite as pronounced as here, so I am definitely missing something. Either I am just completely wrong about where her spine would be, or I am misunderstanding what this line represents. Could you elaborate a bit? Thank you!

I'm so glad this came out today. Tmr is my birthday. I will use the upcoming year to practice a lot of figure drawing in hope that I can finally improve. <3 I love your videos so much.

Really wan’t to break out of the ’draw as you see’ outline based way of drawing, otherwise having done a tone of life drawing. Also from time to time starting out with basic forms eggs/boxes/etc, but still feel to locked to more strictly copying the pose and appearance. But now while drawing along with the examples It feels exciting this way of thinking/working. Then trying out on new poses I realize it will take _some_ more practice and understanding though 😬😅 Really tricky with the hips/buttocks and with the leg connections. And got completely stuck on the legs on leftmost figure, going over and over making it worse with every attempt. But guessing I'm too much tied to the outlines, trying to distill and find the rytms from that. Well just to try again I guess, also really looking forward to upcoming lessons!

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