Grace Yoon
Grace Yoon
Vancouver
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Grace Yoon
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Looking forward to learning!
Grace Yoon
Grace Yoon
3yr
Asked for help
Hi, I was hoping to get critique for figure drawings I did at a live life drawing session. I would love any advice or criticism so I can keep improving. Thank you!
Serena Marenco
Hi Grace! I like your line and the simplicity with which you represent the shadows, the proportions are mostly correct, but I think you should try to make your figures less rigid. The first drawing has a nice gesture, but the following ones look very stiff, backs and arms too straight. Nothing that can't be solved with a bit of practice though, you're definitely on the right track :)
Grace Yoon
Here is my assignment. I just used plastilina and my hands. I've never done sculpting before. I'm looking forward to learning from you!
Jan Hájek
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Started to learn recently, any ideas what´s working and what´s not working, what to change? any feedback on my gesture drawings would be most appreciated. Most of them are 2 minutes.
Grace Yoon
4yr
Hi Jan, I think you have very nice line quality and you're getting some very solid looking figures (especially the second image). I also feel like you have some good gesture lines happening in most of your figures. My suggestion would be to cut back on the details that aren't needed to tell the story of the pose. Alternatively, you could extend the amount of time you give yourself for each pose and before laying in detail, place the major bones (e.g. a simplified rib cage and pelvis and direction lines for limbs.) This is something that helps me with proportion when adding more details. I attached some examples so you can see what I mean by this. I made some light marks to indicate these landmarks. Also, don't be afraid to use more straight lines. I think your first figure on the first pages' upper thigh would look more natural with a straight line on the top part of the thighs. Hope this helps!
Serena Marenco
Your gesture are actually good, your line are strong and precise. But the way you add the lights using blue is not easy to read, especially considering that you don't put any shadows in those sketches: since they are quick sketches maybe it's better not to worry about the glares, they just make the reading of the shape a little fuzzy (they look like corrections) On the other hand, the indigo sketches are very effective, as is the last one where you suggest shadows with much more readability than those in two colours. In short, keep it simple
Grace Yoon
4yr
Hi Serena. Thank you for your critique! I know the gestures with two colours are confusing. The light blue were corrections. It was not supposed to represent light. I added them post completing the gesture to try to see my mistakes but I don't think it was a good idea, I ended up just filling in details I had missed. I think keeping it simple is good advice, thank you :)
Ammar Habash
hello, this is my first time giving a critique on proko2.0 First of all i wanted to say that the drawings look super good and i enjoy looking at them ,but the only thing that i noticed that maybe you could improve a bit are the blue drawings, they look a bit stiff to me, for example the drawing with the woman sitting on a the box with her back facing us, her back looks a bit like a box or a square. Maybe something that would help you is focusing a bit more on the flow of the gestures. But overall i really like the drawings :)
Grace Yoon
4yr
Hi Ammar. Thank you! and thank you for your critique! I totally agree with you. I'll watch out for that.
Uku Kivisild
Hi Grace, the gestures look great, read well and feel natural, well done! I am struggling with gesture drawings myself but what is helping me is drawing the same pose several times. For example if you draw a pose 3 times you are more likely to see common mistakes or work on correcting the mistakes on each one. I notice that the gesture on my 1st try is usually stiffer and the last try is more dynamic and natural looking. When you draw a pose and notice mistakes just try fixing them on the next try until you get the pose down how you like it. Hope this helps. I like your gesture drawings though and not the right person to critique them, sorry. I have attached examples of how I go about it.
Grace Yoon
4yr
Hi Uku, your drawings look great! The way you were able to pushed your gesture the second time (in the second image) is very impressive. I think I will take up your advice of redrawing the same pose. Do you usually do it straight away or after a period of time (e.g. the next day) ?
Felix Oesinghaus
I think these are generally pretty great! I Proportions are good and there is a good balance of mostly straight lines and some curves. I like 1, 7 and 8 the most. With 3 and 4 the perspective seems a bit confusing, where is the horizon supposed to be? Also good idea to do some longer poses after warming up with shorter ones so you're forced to commit to more detail as well!
Grace Yoon
4yr
I've honestly never really thought too much about perspective while doing gesture drawings. I sort of compartmentalize perspective and gesture into separate areas of my brain. But I shouldn't, you make a great point. And yeah, I think long poses are a good idea, that's something I never do but I think I'm going to have to start. Thanks for the critique/advice Felix!
Shaurya Jhaldiyal
These are amazing grace! These remind me of Steve Huston's gesture drawings. I think you should move to longer gesture studies maybe add in some more anatomy. Anyway these are very elegant!!
Grace Yoon
4yr
Thank you Shaurya! I looked up Steve Huston's gestures and yeah, I kinda see what you mean! haha. I think you're right about longer gesture studies and anatomy :/ intimidating but it's probably time. Thank you for your advice :)
PoopMan BoxMan
I've been familiar with gesture before but I've decided to finally share my drawings and improve my gesture drawings once and for all! For these drawings, I've mainly tried to capture the expression of the pose. Please feel free to critique! :::DDD
Grace Yoon
4yr
Hey these look great, you seem to have a good at seeing proportion and overlapping forms, and this will only improve with time. Something that really helped me with gesture (as opposed to more detailed/finished pieces) was using a chunky tool. I used crayons or oil pastels and I also use websites that will only give me a figure for a set time period (e.g. https://quickposes.com/en and https://vimeo.com/channels/1300087 are good websites for this). This forces me limit myself to trying to just capture gesture. I recommend trying it out. I attached an example of a 2 min one I did the other day.
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