Haydn Deal
Maine
Full time husband, dad, and social worker, rediscovering a love of drawing.
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4yr
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hello everyone! These are some gestures I worked on tonight along with the video. I started implementing the practice tips recommended here by @Jesper Axelsson and doing the gesture on my own without the example, then along with Stan and then attempting to do the gesture like Stan again without the completed example. Trying to make less messy lines, and find that my proportions keep stretching, might need to revisit the drawing from the shoulder video. Any feedback is appreciated!
Lemon Ubey
4yr
These look awesome! Is this Sycra's iterative drawing method?
Brian Rogers
4yr
Keep working on your line quality, I can see the flow taking shape and you have a good grasp of proportions! A good way to practice is to count how many lines Stan uses in his drawings and try to recreate it with only those number of lines... It will be tough at first but worth it in the end. Keep it up!
Tony Vu
4yr
I think these are looking great! Something that stands out to me is that the bottom pose in the first picture is off balance. I think the two legs are pushed a little too far to the right relative to the torso, which makes it seem as if the body is about to fall over.
It may be worth quickly watching Stan's video on balance to check for weight distribution in your poses. I'm actually guilty of frequently doing unbalanced poses, so I think I'll go watch that video after writing this haha. The poses in the second photo also suffer from a lack of balance.
But overall, you're getting some nice flow going and your proportions also seem to be getting better with each drawing. Nice work!
