I tried practicing with some of the heads from the class, and then had a go at a couple more stylistic ones.

following along, i need to double check them proportions bc the jaw looks really long i think haha

oh Michael, I'm so excited for all the new videos you uploaded!! can't wait to tackle them soon. I'm taking a short break from this course to get a basic grip on basic anatomy first which i think I'm needing, and I'll then return to do all these new gesture and render classes! I've been trying to use your book (great book btw) for the muscles in the later chapters, but because i am severely colour blind I struggle a lot understanding what all the muscles are... but i'll get there heh

I'm so confused, it's not playing the video in the browser, and when I download the video it starts off saying it's the video for the third lesson? where's lesson 1 and 2? O:

Following along! It’s really interesting how you’ve designed the shapes. Digging the abstraction a lot

looking at the hand as a series of rectangles, cylinders and spheres simplifies this process so much! I practiced this method with other hands

I’ve been a bit confused with the shoulder girdle concept when you’ve used it in previous lectures, but you’ve explained it perfectly in this one! Being shown how they can move independently with the little diagrams made it immediately click

followed along and then I tried doing a similar pose. Think that on my own pose the hips should have been a bit more sideways but apart from this I’m quite happy. Quick question: I saw your preview for the gesture class on yt (Great video btw) and it said more will be coming here on proko…Is this gonna be for this course or is it for a separate one? Just that one video really helped demystify gesture for me, so can’t wait for be more on that. Capturing the pose as a gesture correctly makes everything else so much easier

oh cool! A lot of the questions I had in the previous few classes have been answered in this video, like the straight masses vs curved ones, or that thing I was asking in my previous comment about the width of the extremities. I’m digging using this process, but I feel I am struggling to “see” the landmarks when they’re not pointed out… like in the practices I’ve been doing separately I’m not sure if I’m seeing the correct placement of things like the scapula or if it’s a cheeky muscle I don’t know about peaking through haha gotta practice more and start supplementing with some anatomy studies haha

I followed along and then tried applying what we’ve learned so far on another pose. I think I somewhat got the shapes (maybe?) but it is definitely really hard when you’re not pointing out all the stuff like in the first pose lol one big thing I’m noticing is the thickness of the extremities is somewhat larger in my drawings and it’s because I’m not sure if the cylinders should be incorporating the width of the muscle or is it more just to denote direction/perspective and not the actual leg? Thanks! (photo credit @ the pose archives)

following along, i really like how the steps build over each other and the structure starts appearing as you find the forms. I assume things like muscle would start to build over this in a similar way?

i really liked these warmup exercises, but found myself switching between them instead keeping things separate. Sorry for being disorganised like this haha