I need some feedback if possible. Thank you so much 😍 I know she has no hands 😉🤣

I guess I stretch out my drawings to much. Also, organic forms are really hard.

Here is my third set for this assignment! Previously i had drawn a lot of side/back profiles so i focused on the front on this one. I think proportions are now my biggest issue since especially the first couple ones seem to suffer from long torso and/or leg syndrome.

I didn't make the shapes on the face simple enough. Although my values are organized, they're not clear enough shadow vs light. Proportions are off, thought that wasn't the focus of this exercise. Anything else? I usually don't like doing portraits, but this time around I felt no obligation to get likeness or anything, instead focusing on getting the values right. This made drawing the face pressure-less, so I had a good time drawing today.

Hey guys, I've attached some of my more recent gesture drawings. Although I want them critiqued, I more so want to ask you guys about "off days" in drawing. My digital drawing I've attached was from a couple of days ago, and I remember feeling awful after doing it. Nothing seemed to work and I felt really disheartened to continue. Then today (the charcoal ones) my gestures felt pretty good. It made me realize that I just wasn't having a good day last time. I remember that Stan said you'll get dips and peaks in confidence, but even knowing that, it's really hard to come back afterwards. This isn't the first time this has happened, but a string of failures has gotten me to look pessimistically about my future. Any thoughts on how to solve this? Let me know. - Dwight

Hello, the only thing I see is how far the Sacrum is sticking out. I believe that it should fit within the bucket, or at least that's how I draw it.

my first attempt, i think i take drawing the form too literal, it messes up all my proportion. Need some feedbacks on how to handle this, especially the proportion.

I don't know leg anatomy, so take with a grain of salt, but is the lower right leg (his left) a little bubble-y? Also just my opinion but I don't like how the right leg (again, the model's left) is shaded darker than the other, but that's just preference. Nice work though.

I've tried using my manniquinization knowledge to jump of the deep end, but I'm not sure I swam. I also tried a less line-based core shadow, which you can also comment on.

Don't really know what's wrong with the center one, but feel free to critique any of them. I also tried drawing the knee differently each time, so let me know which one you like. - Dwight

Hello! I am interested in critiques on this gesture/structure drawing I did without much anatomy focus. I spent about an hour trying to get this pose right but I still feel like something’s off, I’ve always struggled with back poses. I think the main issue is in the butt and legs area or maybe the oblique. Any critiques are appreciated. I can also send the reference pic as a DM if that would be helpful! Thank you all so much!

Hi! I've got a few questions concerning how to avoid the snowman effect in apparently symmetrical parts of the body and more "stiff" and symmetrical poses (see examples for such poses below). I'm having a hard time finding a smooth gesture in symmetrical poses, especially those where the subjects are standing up straight. Also how can we do the torso / pelvis / legs in an asymmetrical (not snowman-ish) way when the subject is facing us? If anyone would like to try these, just posting what you did with them might give me some ideas and help me out Thanks!

Hey, I haven't posted in a while, mostly because I don't have any completed things to share. But here's something I did today; nothing new, just more practice. I've been trying to paint digitally, but can't seem to get the right feeling for my brushes. I'm using IBIS paint if anyone has tips. Anyway, tell me what I can improve on. - Dwight

Hello all - I'm looking for critique on my assignments. Gesture is incredibly difficult for me for a variety of reasons. When attempting a 30-second pose session, it felt like I couldn't even establish all limbs without running out of time. Furthermore, on my longer sessions it became evident that I'm struggling to convey exaggerated motion, as many of my figures remain stiff. I believe that I'm heavily focusing on structure instead of motion, but I find it really really difficult to make the character look like anything resembling a human without drawing some semblance of form segments. I tried to reflect upon why my gestures turned out the way that they did in the notes section of each assignment. I think for my next few sessions, I'm going to start by drawing arrows representing the movement / action line of each limb and stringing each of those segments together. Hopefully that will have me focusing less on contours of each. Maybe this approach will even help me remember the asymmetry of connected body segments, as well as learning how to portray relaxed vs tense curves. Do any other beginners here feel like there's too many things to remember all the time with this exercise? Because I'm struggling -.-" I'm wondering if I should keep practicing these types of gestures before continuing on in the video series. Part of me wants to keep practicing this, but part of me thinks that learning concepts like "the bean" or 3d forms will help me in constructing the human body. Any thoughts? Anywho, I understand that I need more practice most of all. Please don't hesitate to let me know if you have any further suggestions for me :)

Hi ! this is my gesture drawing after seeing this video. I have little trouble when drawing single lines, and line of action, but after that, especially the "completed" gesture, it's kinda hard not to think in contour, since some gesture indeed conform to the contour itself. I need critiques and feedbacks, thank you.

First time posting, would love some critique, thank you in advance.

Hello, I have a couple things to add. I'd say that you're placement of the abs is really good, just the forms don't feel believable. 1. though they're not perfectly symmetrical, I think using the same shape for each ab tricks our brain into assuming they are. So I'd recommend changing up the tendonous intersection's start and stop points. 2. A minor thing, but usually men's abs are roughly the same width, while women's create a violin shape. More generally, I'd widen where your abs attach to, as it looks like you're leaving room between the obliques and the abs. 3. (optional) Although shading isn't the focus, if you want your forms to pop more, I'd add variation in your terminator. Take the image labelled 6.2. To me, it looks like a box-y shape for the abs, when the reference shows a more gradual change at the bottom and a sharp edge at the top (of the abs). Making the terminator thicker or thinner depending on the form shape will elevate your drawings. Finally, I did some drawings to put my money where my mouth is. Respond if you need anything else. - Dwight

Sorry it's been a minute. I tried to do Drawabox to improve my knowledge of forms, and instead it made me lose interest in drawing all together. I'm going to take a break from it for now, and just go back to figure drawing. Here's an interesting angle, and I tried to capture it (I see now that the head's a too big). Let me know what you find off. - Dwight

After a 3 month hiatus I'm picking back up where I left off last time. The rust is coming off but it maybe a few days before I get back to where I was.