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added comment inLandmarks Assignment Example 2: Front
2yr
First try. The front view is much easier than the back! This video breaks everything down in a really logical way and it's easy to remember what goes where.
@fuzzhead93
2yr
Wow, those looks great!!! I'm excited to get to this lesson :)
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2yr
This is an excellent mix of various issues that helped me to identify my own. I went back after this video and tried to apply the "medicine" to my gesture drawings. The second time, I did air drawing before putting down the curves and tried using simpler longer ones. I feel like my gestures became more healthy (less busy somehow?) and less detailed for the 2 minute poses.
2yr
These are great! I like how you are using line weight to emphasize certain parts of the body. I need to learn how to do this!
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I wanted to focus on capturing the gesture in as few lines as possible, and remind myself not all lines have to connect. I learned wearing headphones and listening to music really helps. I think just having a beat pumped into your head keeps you focused.
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2yr
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Good evening everyone. I always struggle a bit with these kind of exercises. Finding it especially hard to simplify into boxes, rather than round shapes, and seeing/understanding when to "switch" the direction of cross countours to emphasize movement in relation to the bigger shapes, especially when I am paying attention to the horizon line. Any tips om how I can think about it while planning the direction of the shapes?
Feel free to draw over my pictures 🙂
2yr
I haven't tried this lesson yet, but I tried something similar from one of Stan's YouTube videos.
For the bear maybe try a box for the whole body, butt to front. Then the legs can be rectangle boxes overlapping the main box that go from the top to the foot. The head would be a small box hovering in front of the body box & the neck would be a smaller rectangular box connecting head to body. From this perspective you wouldn't see much of the neck box I think.
I find the cross contours tricky too. The way that helps me is to think about it as a cylinder. Am I looking up at it or looking down on it? That changes the contour of the end of the cylinder which then tells you the direction of the contour for the rest of that cylinder.
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2022/10/13 I spent more than 2 min try to drawing it more like flow ..but still feel stiff when drawing leg or butt..
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2yr
My attempt at Marshall's 5 line challenge - I did no time limit, but wrote the times next to most of them. I think this was super helpful after trying to learn gesture for the last few weeks and slowly improving with the 30s and 2 min versions. I welcome any feedback!
The original pics I took with my phone were really terrible, so I used the auto-leveler on paint.net to improve the contrast. That's why the lighting looks a bit weird.
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2yr
My first gesture exercises...
2yr
Nice! One thing I'm noticing in my work that I see here too is trying to connect each line to each other. I noticed in Stan's gesture drawings, often the lines don't connect on purpose and actually helps implying the form more that way
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I'd love critique on my 30 second gesture poses. I've been approaching them iteratively, sketching each twice with a slightly different approach. I still feel as though I am seeing too much contour, and I especially struggled with torsos that are twisted such that they're completely or nearly profile.
2yr
He does show a couple examples in his videos of torsos that don't show their center line, profile like you said or where the centerline is obscured. I noticed in these he focused more on drawing the gesture of the ribcage. One thing that I'm seeing in these is that your centerline seems like it's always in the center of the left & right torso lines, despite it being offcenter in almost all of the reference poses. Adjusting how much space is between the center line & the edges of the body can be helpful to get the perspective looking a bit more accurate.
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I draw with the video. The more I practice I notice that there are more things to learn.
2yr
I had this same exact insight the other day, noticing that there's so much nuance in the way that Stan draws these gestures!
Shorter lunch than I had planned. I got 18 quickposes at 30 seconds each, and then 6 at 60 seconds each. Sadly, too many interruptions impeded my ability to nab 2-minute quickposes. I'll do that later today.
That being said, I know this all comes down to practice, but boy is it hard to capture gestures. I'm trying though, yeesh. They're ugly, but we'll get there.
