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Alex McCaleb
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18d
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CHECKING TO SEE IF WE'RE PAYING ATTENTION? At the end?!
LOL I had to double take!
James Paris
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2mo
Fell into the same trap again, kept zooming too much to really refine my lineart, only to realise that it was barely visible once the project was finished and colored :)
Hearing the sense of process hits hard~
He's breaking down like Hampton how we have so many chances to pass over a gesture or form before getting structural 'correctness' down on the page. Big to small. Major gestural flows first~
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I was looking at Bridgman while working on this assignment and was thinking about alternating patterns of square and round shapes, and also how the shapes insert.
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A couple more mannequins
Alex McCaleb
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3yr
Now THIS is what I call a small world! My left brain looked right past this heading in my e-mail, I'm thinking "Oh right, Mattesi has a new video.... oh wait who now? michael.. HAMPTON??????" THAT Michael Hampton?! Figure Drawing: Design and Invention was my FIRST, and I've never been able to put a face and voice to the teacher, so studying from this video is a surreal trip! This is really cool, man. Glad to see you're doing well.
Update: Just saw the proko link to your Youtube channel.
You've been doing videos this whole TIME? ...looks like I've got some studying to do~
Lucas Lacerda
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3yr
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Some of the 2 min poses I did today.
This is my first attempt on drawing 2min poses in a long while. After some weeks doing only 30 sec poses, it felt really different doing longer ones, in a good way.
With this extra time I felt that I could focus even more on the movement and the connection between lines, making more conscious decisions compared with the 30 sec poses.
I had a really good time drawing these and will keep on practicing. Any critiques are more than welcome!
Okay, now I'm looking at this one, and I wanna give you another piece of critique. You're doing an eeeeexcellent job of simplifying the body to only the curves and lines that matter most. It's arguably the most crucial skill for us figure artists and you should continue cultivating it and having fun with it. Keep up the good work yo~
Lucas Lacerda
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3yr
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Here are some 30sec practice I did today, when I'm starting the course. I would really appreciate some feedback on them.
This is not my first time approaching figure drawing. In the past few weeks I have been reading some books about it, watching videos, and practicing with hundreds of 30 sec poses.
The only issue is that I don't know if my attempts can indeed represent movement well enough, so I started the course for knowledge and critiques
From the looks of this submission, it looks like you're choosing your lines very carefully which is good when it comes to analytical exercise drawing like the kind of gesture we do here. If you feel like you're not representing the visual movement well enough, remember the #1 rule... Exaggeration~! I know you must feel like you've heard it a million times by now and me too, Lucas LOL. But remember that this isn't necessarily 'REAL' pose drawing yet, this is an 'exercise'. Your gesture poses don't HAVE to be physically possible or look comfortable to actually pose in. Observe carefully for what the person is 'DOING (the activity or intention that gave RISE to the pose is what we're drawing, not truly the pose itself, which is why we can exaggerate)' and exaggerate the activity. If it's a guy looking down at his phone on a sidewalk, space the other hand out really far and bring his face in even closer to the phone. Like REEEALLLY look at that phone, almost cartoonishly lol. This is only an exercise, so when it's time for me to 'actually' draw a guy looking at his phone, I can tone down the intensity a little. You kinda see what I mean? I'm trying to make you feel more comfortable with the motivation behind exaggeration in the first place, make you feel more free to do so. Then you'll feel like you're Really directing the viewer's eye with your pose's movement.
Marco Sordi
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3yr
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2022/2/24. Good morning everybody. Today’s 30mins warming up exercise was Learning from masters and Character design: Bruce Timm❤️
Thanks.
I've started to do some models on my own and I hope to hear back on how I did. I Think I have a better grasp of the forms than I did a week ago but I also feel like my mannequins are missing some important step in the drawing process. Thank you for reading. :)
There's something I've really started to notice about the drawing process that I think would help you too. I've seen professionals DO this on their sketching videos whether or not it was the focus of the video... but have you noticed the frequent practice of artists putting like... 'Something' down whatsoever and then refining it after the fact? Like if they're doing the shoulder and hips, first you'll see this rough hourglass-y rhythmed shape and THEN they briefly distinguish and polish it into the intended shape.
So you and I both, if you're looking for another step... Let's draw A VOLUME... as rough as can be with at least the major shape lines in place. And then give it a better cleaner mannequinization shape of whatever kind. The first stage will always be a rough gesture drawing. By rough I don't mean harsh lines, I just mean lacking major detail.
