That was sick. Thankyou.

First, Thanks everyone it really helps getting all the comments and feedback. It keeps the fire burning. Second, 30 seconds felt ridiculously fast. I recognised I waste some time by not doing those longer strokes and I was able to 'push' my mental snapshot to use a longer line. I think it tightened up my drawing and there was generally a sense of less mess. Thanks Dan and Joakim. Im gonna do some larger stuff as the day gets on but thought I'd share and say thankyou. Keep up the good work everyone- Thankyou. Oh - I tried to include more feet Izak.

Hi, I just signed up for this program and so I'm new to this, but your quick gesture studies convey a lot of motion/emotion with economy. They looks great. you nailed it!

Really cool, gestural and also explains the figure really well. Dont have any critique to offer :D Maybe the last from the top row is quite messy?

These look awesome and I love how flowing and dynamic they feel. I don't have any critique for them, but you could perhaps try to simplifying them a bit, using less detail around the contour of the figure and instead trying push for longer strokes that describe the overall movement of the pose (not saying these drawings don't) and then see what happens. Perhaps you could also consider working bigger? There's nothing wrong with drawing in a smaller format, but going bigger gives you more room for using your arm and shoulder which is pretty nice for drawing gestures :) Keep up the good work!

Great job. The gesture is perfect. So dynamics.

Definitely get the 'going through the motions' feeling a lot. Generally when I'm lacking bigger 'goals' and end up practicing for its own sake. It's a rollercoaster :p Great gestures, proportions and shape/light demonstration is really strong. For these, I would be interested to see your shorter gesture drawings (i.e. 30 secs - 1 min) as a lot of these have a lot of 'shapes' but not clear gesture in terms of long lines/energy. See how clearly you can represent the pose in as few lines as possible. Then exaggerate a bit, push the poses, that's always a good way to find out problem areas and also make them a bit more exciting to do.

Looking great, just make sure to include feet!

Hi there, I just started the courses and these are a few of my 2 min gesture drawings. I am unsure of what I’m doing wrong or right. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.

Here's a new portrait drawn with Pastel Pro Pack! I tend to do roughly 70% of a drawing using one or two of the pencil brushes (at the top of the brush list), then finish with broad, heavy texture, strokes from the other brushes. Much of the process is about controlling edges and value contrast. I talk a good bit about my process, including how I set up my iPad for efficient drawing, in this live demo on the Proko channel: https://www.proko.com/lesson/pastel-drawing-in-procreate-with-lane-brown-livestream/discussions

Hey, my name is Tom. Im 31, I live in Perth Australia, just want a portfolio thats good enough to land a few freelance gigs - Im working towards Illustration for Children's Books as well as Cover Splash Art/Comic Book/Concept Awesomodes. I LOVE Figure Art and depicting epic battle scenes would be the dream.

Procreate is $9.99 on the app store and they've given me constant updates and new features...this is $22. The price is out of touch with reality.

Day 11 Oof, today was tough. Got five done though. Started late, felt rushed, didn't measure things well, worked on detail more than shapes. I do like playing with unfamiliar brushes as it makes me simplify again and gets me to loosen up a bit. I feel I started well today with the first two, but didn't do well with the physical media. I've surprised myself that I've been able to get all of these out on the first go, aside one. I thought I'd be screwing up a lot of them and doing re-do's.

Hey Dan, Im new to critique so bare with me. You're off to a great start - couple of things I could recommend here: squint your eyes and make your marks based off values (shadows vs light). Use GOOD reference I cannot stress this enough, some photos have lighting that makes it difficult to study. No.4 is looking good you can see a nice shadow form on the side of the head. Use photos with clearly defined light source will make this challenge a whole lot easier. Learn some basic structure, learn about the zygomatic, glabella, get some generall landmark lines which I've seen you do in no.3 Nice! keep them light a great method to help with these marks is Riley Rythms (if you google Riley Rythms Head or something you should find plenty of videos that outline the Riley Method). Also Loomis's Book Drawing Head Hands and Feet (I think thats the title) shows a great method of drawing a ball cutting the sides off and placing a few lines for land marks. EDIT: I didnt see you're other posts until just then - sorry ahah I realise this is old and you've already improved.

I believe that you can always critique if you use the proper level of confidence in your affirmations. You can share your thoughts but without making strong affirmations. For instance, you can say, "the legs seem long to me, but maybe that was a stylistic choice of yours, it does not look bad, but you tried to make them shorter? I believe that it would look cool!". On the other hand, you can always say how the piece makes you feel, and you could never be wrong on that. By the way, your drawings look clear to me; that is the most important part of line quality, right? Beautiful mark-making is an advanced skill that we are always improving, I think. Maybe you can record your drawing session on video and watch you draw later, paying attention to your movements.

Hello Tom! Amazing work so far, can't wait to see more :) I don't think that's something you should worry about. Croquis are an amazing way to improve in gesture, especially if you are using more unforgiving instruments, like ink. If you want to imrpove, you are on a good way. Keep up the great work :)

Wow!! These sketches are simply wonderful!!!

Hi there! Also new, but also want to be more involved :D these are STUNNING and honestly...I'm a bigger fan of loose sketches, especially ink sketches. Something about ink is just so lovely to me. But if you do want advise on cleaner line work, a tip I received from my tattoo mentor is to use the thinnest possible micron (0.003 is the thinnest I've seen) and ink your work with it to help improve line stability. If that makes sense? so maybe to practice clean line work, line over old pencil sketches as another layer of practice :) I hope that's useful - I kind of have to practice that since I want to be a tattoo artist :).

Loose sketches have a quality by themselves, but if you want to work towards cleaner lines, I recommend https://drawabox.com, in particular the first lessons. And, no, the purpose of these exercises is not to draw a box, but to improve eye-hand coordination for drawing.