Matthew Nicholas Sandoval
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Here's the highlight of my daily 30 minute "2min gesture" practices. I am using a easel and charcoal pencil to really help me capture the rythym.
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2022/3/16. Good morning everybody. Here’s some hi lights from my daily 30 minutes warming up exercise. 2 mins poses. Thanks and have a good day.
Matthew Nicholas Sandoval
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Oh man, these are very beautifully done. How did you execute these? I'm going to assume with an easel with charcoal pencil, right?
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2022/3/15. Good morning everybody. Here’s my daily 30 minutes warming up exercise exercise. Studying the body and the head proportions in Japanese manga. Thanks.
The mannequinization you sketched up looks blissful. I like how you captured the gesture, while maintaining a level of volume. Excellent work my friend.
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I am struggling to find the motion in Anthony's right arm. I would appreciate a helping hand.
I have been studying and practicing gesture for the last month or so, and I am really impressed with my work.
I noticed when I was starting out, I was "outlining" the model instead of actually feeling the motion of the form. The first 2 pictures are my months work of endless practice, completed under 2 mins.
I still got a lot more practice ahead of me, but I am always willing to improve.
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Before I did my 2 minute poses, I did some poses without a time limit which I think really helped me analyze the figure and be more careful with my lines. I'm still not great at this, but I feel that I can improve a lot if I keep on doing this. Any sort of advice or critique is very useful to me right now.
These are good. I think taking the time to really analyze the model can help, but we want to train the eye to be quick, efficient, and to be able to see past the detail. I have two suggestions: Practice a lot and try using single lines for the s curves and c curves. I am also studying gesture, and man it is a pain, but we must put in the work in order to improve.
Keep it up, and don't quit.
Also, check out Stan's critique video with Marshall Vandruff. They give a lot of good pointers, and it's worth studying. Hope this helps.
https://www.proko.com/s/RLdK
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Thanks Stan! This is much appreciated.
I took my time with this and did a combination of exercises: firstly, I captured the gesture on my own, than I tried to improve on it by studying the one from Proko. Secondly, I tried to get the Robo Bean / main structure of the torso (again first from testing, than correcting it by tracing). And thirdly I did a muscle tracing as far as I knew the muscles by using the 3d models and lectures from the anatomy course and learning one new muscle segment each day. Did this for several days / weeks in a row and it really helped me improve my understanding a great Deal. These are my favourites. Oh and today I also did an only-gesture session.
Good sketches. When capturing gesture, you really want to rely on more of a feeling, than what you are actually seeing. I say this because anyone can visually draw something with enough time, but it takes artistic talent to capture something based on what your gut is saying. Overall, good drawings but I'd recommend 2 min sketches to really test your abelites when it comes to gesture.
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Here's a couple of my 2 min sketches. The biggest problem I am facing is that I am having a hard time locating the main action line within the model. Especially when facing the back.
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I've been doing Gesture exercises for around 50 days and I feel my drawing for both this course and my hobby is surprisingly improved, I really want to tell thanks to Proko and the people in this community.
Still, I can't feel what gesture is and my lines look dirty although I always try to make them clear and stable as ones did in examples and the critiques video, Probably I use a pencil the wrong way, or just because of bad controlling of my hands?
Any critiques are welcomed!
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Marcia so damn gorgeous. Sweet can of golden, kernel corn! I had such a difficult time capturing the expression of her body because of her distracting "details". I.. I think I'm in love...
But other than that, solid sketching session! This time I did the examples by myself, then watched how Stan went along sketching the models.
I feel really confident about these. I can see myself improving, which is truly inspiring. There are a lot of things I like and dislike about my sketches, that of which I know what to work on and what to keep. I honestly thought jumping back to the gesture lesson was going to be boring, but I had such a fun time revisiting this lesson! Such an important concept that shouldn't be overlooked and that should be regularly practiced. So keep up the hard work comrades, it'll all be worth it in the end.
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