I can't figure out the last example, crossing the picture plane, how it would work. Shouldn't it be at the crossing point instead or am I missing something? In 'behind the plane' we create a sort of ghost box from extruding out the box to touch the picture plane and that I can see how it works out. But when the box is crossing the plane like in image below. If I would cut the box in two and having the cut (blue line) making a corner at the picture plane like that, then the smaller box not crossing the image plane would just be the first case from previous lesson.

ah, well.. :)

Here are some gestures I worked on, once I got into a groove it started to feel better. some got a little big for the page. The male one seemed to get a bit too thick in the hip area. hope to hear your feedback!

Working my way through. Think I need to focus on the have fun part, getting the essentials down more loose and quick and using more abstraction. Hard to break out from trying to recreating the pose and shapes with their outlines and such, as seen from that angle and whatnot.

FIRST HALF

This was tricky, starting out with the master studies part. Inspiration was high and the drawings felt they would be clear cut to work from, but hit a wall in each and every one. And especially study 3, 8 and 10 went bad, didn't get it with the torso and hip lines. Really hope to get some of it cleared up in the review, seeing more examples and corrections. Struggling with torso if line is spine/contour/some overall gesture line. And also hips with so few lines gives trouble. Also think I confuse gesture with form and volume, latter perhaps not needed at this stage. Also nice with more lectures beeing posted, and really happy the gesture book arrived in mail today. Head down, push forward🙂

Really wan’t to break out of the ’draw as you see’ outline based way of drawing, otherwise having done a tone of life drawing. Also from time to time starting out with basic forms eggs/boxes/etc, but still feel to locked to more strictly copying the pose and appearance. But now while drawing along with the examples It feels exciting this way of thinking/working. Then trying out on new poses I realize it will take _some_ more practice and understanding though 😬😅 Really tricky with the hips/buttocks and with the leg connections. And got completely stuck on the legs on leftmost figure, going over and over making it worse with every attempt. But guessing I'm too much tied to the outlines, trying to distill and find the rytms from that. Well just to try again I guess, also really looking forward to upcoming lessons!

And now for something completely different...