
joaz
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Some 30 second drawings from today. I've done a lot of gesture drawing over the past 6 months, mostly digitally but also some in person figure drawing sessions.
I feel I'm still struggling a lot. I think I struggle with picking the important parts of a pose in such a short amount of time, so I end up just focusing on the same things regardless of the pose.
I think I struggle with showing tilt and lean with so few lines, this is probably also exacerbated by the previous problem, I can't find the important part of the pose that will show the tilt or lean.
I might also still be focusing too much on contour. I've tried sometimes to just not focus my eyes and look more at the whole of the pose, or focus on the center/inside of the body, and sometimes it might be helping? It's hard to tell. Do you think I'm focusing too much on contour on these?

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Hi, just a quick reply here.
I think it would help a lot if you also give the head a quick sennse of direction, right now they all look like a straight front view which ends up not capturing the idea of the gesture.
I've not done much figure drawing lately, so I will start from the very beginning of this course. You might see me post my own works.
@Stan Prokopenko You mention that you try to understand how strokes were made, in what direction, how the drawing tool was held and such. How do we do studies of images where that is no longer clearly apparent? For example if I want to study from someone who works digitally, is that less suited to copying in an analogue medium because the techniques used might not be replicapble? So in other words: At what point does a reference become less suitable for an exercise like this? Or is there no such thing? Is it just about taking what we like and trying to replicate it in our chosen medium and then move on?
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I think digital art studies should be treated differently (although I don't know how), because the final piece often doesn't show anything about the the process that got it there. So many things you can do without any signs of it (filters, blending modes, adjustment layers, brushes etc.).
Honestly these are my thoughts, as I have a lot of difficulty trying to do digital art studies, pencil ones are much easier. I really would like to have an insight into this if possible.
@Stan Prokopenko
Hi Class! Master line project. I learned from DS Delux from Hungary. I love his animal drawings. The darker lines draw my attention first to the turtles head and front fins, and leads my eyes down the turtles back. I like how the searching lines are left within the sketch, but are softer and not attract too much attention. The searching lines also helped in my own sketch of the master turtle.
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Hi, I just want to mention that the artist is psdelux, I couldnt find the artist at first.
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I'm lacking pretty much of time currently, so I feel free to post an attempt of a Master Study I drew a while ago. Leonardo would not have been pleased, since I was using a pencil (...).
2mo
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It’s a Sunday morning in 1996. Pop tarts are in the toaster. You’re gonna stay in your pajamas all day. Life is good.
Fun little throwback to show line weight in foreground, middle, and back ground. Line quality seems off and I feel like it could be better. I find it difficult to know when and how to make heavier ‘shadow’ lines without making them seem all bumpy and ugly looking
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Not going to lie; this was hard. The laces threw me for a loop. So imma hit the demo and see where I went wrong. Side note found a new mortal enemy..... drawing laces. Happy drawing, everyone :D.
2mo
Hi, I hope this helps.
More quick notes for myself really, if anything else. The biggest point I noticed in your piece (also the snail) is the use of smaller lines to make up a larger one, try to put down lines in one whole stroke (multiple ones) if necessary.
The most important thing is practice, I'm also quite new to art.
Good look with your journey!
(also I noticed the image might be a bit too blurry, sorry for that, I will try better next time)
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Good day! I noticed the vid just yesterday, i guess i had notifications off... But this is something I am constantly working on. I used to be a fulltime tattooartist, so this is something I have tried to push from day 1. 🙈 At the moment, I am trying to work as parttime tattooer in the "new-school" style which has huuge amount of different lineweights, some colored lines, some huge black ones. Here's some I have been working on lately and studied +photos of the aquarium reference (drew with pencil at the location, added colors and lights at home):
But still, I try to get time and do the rhino ASAP. Thanks for looking, happy spring to ya'll! ☀️☀️☀️
2mo
Wow these look amazing!
Personally I haven't seen somebody with a tattoo like this, and to me it would feel like a bit 'too much' as a tattoo, but the art itself is amazing.
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Any suggestions for improvement?
3mo
hi,
I would say the values are pretty good, but it comes pretty close together between the lights and the shadows. Try to make the seperation in shadow/light values a bit more noticeable.
The values you put down are not consistent, for the halftone for example. Try to make it one consistent value, where you fill up the shape evenly and with one tone.
Also I noticed that maybe your proportions are a bit off, but it doesn't matter, because this still reads like a pear. The shadow on the other hand, is facing the wrong direction. If you used the reference photo from the project, the shadow should be going to the top left instead of the bottom left. Based on the highlights you put, this should be the case.
3mo
I did these two. First one on the left without video and right one alongside this video. Hard to nail proper pencils with a digital brush, but the lesson is learned regardless.
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Gave this a go. I feel like I didn't get the values correct, and the defining lines between each value is too harsh. I''ll give it another go and compare!
3mo
The lightest shadow and darkest halftone are way too close in values, you could just go over the shadow values again to make it darker.
also, don't outline your shapes (like the highlights and cast shadows), let the value itself be the seperation.
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First time trying lvl 2 but this exercise is exactly what I wish to learn! Love the invitation to simplify and search. Excited to learn how to get the images in my head onto the paper! This feels like an excellent first step. Ready for more!
3mo
wow!
The first one reminded me about some rabbit drawings done by eleeza, I love her art.
but true this is also what I really want to learn.
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Hi guys!
My attempt at sketching from imagination! Unfortunately I lost the layer with the rough sketches :( (I don't know how).
I did simple volume/ shape drawings of the regular birbs, and then tried to get the flow of the wings. the blue bird was used so I could better get to imagine the pose of the drawing.
I wanted to draw the Glaucus atlanticus, but I think I will attempt that one later. I'm quite interested to see the critiques.
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Hi guys!
My attempt at these three, I liked this one, it felt less like I had to 'force' myself to draw good and just have more fun instead.
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I was able worried I wasn't gonna be able to do this well but I think I did decent, but I felt like I was unsure of the values still.
3mo
I think it looks good actually, giving off dark athmosphere vibes.
The proportions are not the same as the reference, it works fine here (maybe even better?). What matters is that it is still readable as the object drawn. (with the portrait (level2) it is more important to get the proportions right).
Try to put in more clean tones, make the value of a shape more even.
The darkest halftone looks more like it belongs to the shadows to me, it just depends on personal choice where you want to put it.
Not much of a help really, but I think the demo's and critique video will explain a lot.
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Although I'm starting from 0, I tried my hand with the second challenge as well. I may try to make it up for the model in the future when I've improved by drawing him again.
A tip: I've found that it's best to first draw the outline using my lightest pencil (B), then filling out the darkest bits (here: most of the hair and the nose holes, using a 4B in my case), and then moving again from the lightest to the darkest parts. That way, I get a feeling for what the different shades of black are going be as I keep drawing, so I can adjust on the fly.
3mo
wow good start!
I'm still fairly new to art too (~15 months), and the few pieces that I redid after atleast a few months ended up looking massively better.
I notice I still have a lot to learn, but atleast I know I'm improving by redrawing older pieces and comparing them.
I would be interested to see your improvement in a few months.
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As you may already be able to tell, I am in need of serious improvement on my 2 minute gesture drawing, but I am not entirely sure what to change. If you can help, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
3mo
Hi, these actually look fine and I'm sure you will improve over time with practice.
For now I would say work on line confidence, (pre) visualize where your line is gonna be and ghost it in before you actually put a line down. you'll end up with a few lines that look better instead of 10 lines that make it look messy.
3mo
Hi guys.
So I decided to give this one another go, the second one (white bg) was 10 months ago. This feels like a big improvement, yet I feel like I'm completely lost, it feels like this is too much for me.
Any feedback would be really helpful and much appreciated.
4mo
Day 239: This is what I got after watching the demo for the camel. I am going to do the skull on my own tomorrow then watch the rest of the demo
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3mo
Hi guys!
I did both levels yesterday and today (ignore the dates), before watching the demo's today.
I know I'm unfortunately too late for the critiques :(
Not looking for any help necessarily, but anything is welcome.
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