Jonathan Criner
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3yr
I have the same issue with my phone. If it is a really bright day, something that works for me is to hang a white sheet or a large white board or canvas and use the board and sun as multiple light sources. I can usually get pretty good lighting, the angle helps reduce the glare. It can be tricky to get right the first time.
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3yr
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Hi, this is my attempt at the 2 minute gesture quicksketch. I'm seeing some progression already since I've started this course, but still need a lot more practice. Also because these poses take me longer than 2 minutes every time. But I'm enjoying drawing these gestures a lot. It's very rewarding to see my daughters judge them and try to do the poses themselves from the drawings. Great lessons and tanks for taking the time to post your critiques!
Jonathan Criner
3yr
If they take more than two minutes to get to that level of detail, then set your timer for how long they take and that is your new time limit. The time limit is designed to force you to only put down the most important lines to describe the form. You shouldn't think of it as "how close to a finished drawing can I get in two minutes", it should be "with only two minutes, which lines should I put down to describe the pose, and what can I ignore". As your skill develops, you will naturally become more efficient in laying down your lines, and so will be able to include more information, but you'll also find you don't need to put down a lot of lines to describe the same amount of information.
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I think you need to be more specfic on what you want for a critique. What course are you working on, or what do you want us to look at? When you are just beginning and just starting to develop your skills, you can quickly get overwhelmed with a thousand advices.
You mentioned linework, is that what you wanted looked at? You can improve linework by starting VERY simple, just draw straight lines, place two points on the paper, and, with purpose, lay down the line, using your arm vice just your fingers or wrist (Proko has videos on this, or just google "drawing with your whole arm"). Then work on curves, and then cicles. Just lay down the line, don't get attached to accuracy or it being exactly straight or round, just work on a smooth execution. Practice it, and then do it as a warm up before you start your normal figure practice session.
For the figures, I think you are looking at your paper too much and trying to get the pose "right", but you do need to start your gesture first. All of you figures are very verticle, which makes them all look kind of the same, even though they are different. Try to get a feel of the action or motion of the pose, and then exaggerate that motion before you start getting into detail. Again, Proko has a great example of this in one of the critique videos, either the figure drawing or anatomy course (its from about 8 years ago, I forget which course it was under).
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