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Zachary Mojica
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4d
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My submissions for the Proko x Steven Michael Hampton Gesture challenge! Medium: ball point pen on sketchbook 9x12 Strathmore sketchbook paper.
Robert
3d
Never seen an approach to gesture like this but it works. It's nice to look add. Sometimes I feel you might lose structure with this. like in the bottom right pose on the second image. legs look like a snowman to me
I think you are following the contour to much. Your lines feel stiff and wobbly. You already simplified the feet but it's to much. You lose a lot of depth with simplifying to the basic shapes. use overlap in the shapes to create depth and you don't have to draw in the whole shape. This is especially apparent in number 11. Give the videos in the description a go and redo the hands and feet. Also the shading does not really add to most of the drawings since the lines are all pretty dominant. Vary with line thickness and value when drawing. I think you did this digitally. Pick a brush with size and value bound to pressure and retry some of the hands/feet. Might notice a difference
really great stuff here. Love the line quality. you added the structure while keeping the gesture in the feet and there are a few eye catcher details. Good stuff my man. love to see it
very static hands. They look robotic. Not in a bad way but the spiderman hand loses its whole flow by being to stiff
Robert
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3d
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Here are my week 3 assignments. Some of these turned out really well to my surprise. Never have done feet but there are pretty nice rhythms you can spot on them. Hands not so much for me in terms of finding rhythm.
I'd appreciate if someone could help me out on one thing: I struggle a lot to find a rhythm in the fingers/toes. I usually see the big picture ie. rhythm of the knuckles or the rhythm of all toes but when it comes to designing the shapes for those, I usually end up with poor choices. I watched the dynamic shapes video by Stan. I get the approach but especially the toes look so similar that I cannot really indicate a lot of asymmetry without making it look weird.
Any advice on this would be appreciated
Robert
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9d
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Week 2 - Static Poses
Ironically these poses feel really static and stiff. I tried Michael's approach for gestures linked in the resources. Sometimes it worked sometimes I came across issues regarding the stretch and pinch and proportion. I assume I just lack the experience to replicate it consistently
If your like me it because I can focus too much on outside contour lines where as Michael puts down lines we don’t necessary see on photos but show internal flow, angles of forms. I do think it takes time to learn this.
Lesulie
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15d
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Week 2 gesture challenge
About halfway through I realized I was focusing too much on details and losing the gesture, so I switched to a thicker and lighter brush and spent more time finding the large shapes. That definitely made it a lot easier and I think my latter drawings looked more dynamic as a result.
I just the pose with the female warrior. You nailed it. Love the exaggeration on it. Great stuff
Gannon Beck
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22d
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Week one: 10 one minute gestures, 10 five minute gestures and one bonus five minute gesture.
