Congrats!! I love nr 89 and 99 I can feel the force of the gesture

Thanks, I googled some stretches and those helped a bit. I will probably go to my physio and let her have a look ai it.

Thanks a mill! <3 I will check it out!

Yay, we are on the same unit! Are you drawing with all the steps recommended by Stan? I mean - gesture -> structure -> lines > details? I find it hard to establish the right proportion when I start with gesture, TBH I was surprised to learn that I actually like drawing hands. Don't get me wrong I suck at it, but I also feel that is OK, because it is honestly hard subject to draw. ps. I'm curious what you will think of rotating heads challenge - I found it extremely difficult.

Omg that coyote 😍 sooooo good. Hot long it took?

thank you so much for doing those drawings with muscle names, it helps so much!

oh my the cylinders challenge, I am not a fan, but you are doing great! I know it is conscious style choice, but maybe you can try varying limelight in those caricatures? I remember it worked very well in your previous posts,

i just want to applaud you for drawing a female figure without the heels - I always thought it is such bullshit to measure a it e with heels... I mean, I understand where it is coming from - commercial work - but also... Loomis, with all my love, wtf, man.

Omg I love the second rhino <3. It is so great you are really exploring different approaches

I love the fact you are doing iterations on gesture drawings! I have apparently unpopular opinion, but in the second drawing I definitely like gesture 4 the most - thou it is my personal impression - - I can feel there the same inward motion the model portrayed. It evokes the same feeling of insecurity, and I think this is due to the way the hand and the upper back work there. But that's just me guessing, so feel free to ignore me ;) The challenge looks awesome, maybe one day i will give it a shot as well!

How long gesture drawings took you? On the kneeling guy, I feel the neck is a bit misplaced, and the centerline of the body goes to its left side, not to the centre, also the head fills a bit big. Very clean lines - you are drawing so cleanly (that'd be super impressive), or it was cleaned up? PS. I don't know why, but I didn't get notifications for your posts lately :(

First of all - we have all been there or are there with you! So no worries and for sure don't feel embarrassed. Those quick poses are not easy! I'd say that 30-second ones are the hardest. I am struggling with them as well, but I can tell you what helped me a bit, maybe it will help you too - I am focusing on two things only - an angle between the pelvis and the torso and the angle between the torso and the head. Hands and legs are way less important (I recommend Love Life drawing video about this you can find it on YouTube) - After a finished session of quick catches ( around 20 minutes) I go through them slowly and try to analyse them, but not focusing on what is wrong but on what I could do differently to make it look better. Then I try to test this idea, and just redraw the thing or if I am feeling last (almost always) draw on top of the drawing. If it looks better - awesome. I note down what I learned. If I have no idea how to fix my drawing - I try not to get upset - some poses are just hard and I am on the beginning on a journey, some day I will get there. - A bit of cheating, but I am not doing 30 sec. at all i do 1 minute - cause its more beginner-friendly while still requiring you to work fast and not overthink

Hi, nicely done! This is a super hard exercise in the begging, so yeah well done. Try focusing more on the angle between a ribcage and a pelvis. This is one of the most important relationships in the whole body. Maybe try drawing the bottom line of the ribcage first (one that would connect the two last ribs) and the top of the pelvis second. Try to work on the torso from there. The created angle will tell you where should you include pinch and where stretch - and including those makes the pose much more dynamic. Also try avoiding "hairy" lines (guessing where the line should be by placing it and then correcting it by placing the next one next to it and then the next one etc.) Force yourself instead to ghost every line you want to place before putting it on paper. It's not so much about the qualities of those drawing, but more about building a good habit and ditching a bad one.

I watch the video (thanks for link!) and I agree with it, but just to some extent. I am all for projects - I think it is much better motivation than very abstract "improving", BUT I also think the best way is to mix a project with a roadmap like the art curriculum. My main reason is: You don't know what you don't know. Sometimes (probably mostly when you are a beginner) something about drawing just feels off - and you have no idea why. If you do not know what contributes to "good" drawing, it is much harder to figure out what is wrong. Think about values - if you don't know they are super important, it is hard to realize on your own that they are the issue. on the other hand I agree that there is no point in learning i.e. drawing vehicles unless you really need to for a project if you are not interested in them (yeah I am probably skipping that draw a box lesson). And when we talk about DaB - the challenges on the website are super boring, and hype killing BUT as long as I feel I am learning something from it - IMHO its with it. I.e. 250 boxes helped me to control my lines better and trained me to ghost lines - I liked that, so even I didn't enjoy the challenge, I felt I am getting something of it. With 250 cylinders I don't have that feeling so I am skipping it at least for now - now I am just repeating same mistakes, struggling and hating the experience so it doesn't make sense for me. I think its just too hard for me at this point.

How the hell your insects have such readable lines? Tablet?

I am probably a horrible person right now, but I am happy that I am not the only one for whom 200 cylinders is a hellish challenge 😅 What helped me with boxes a bit was to draw a box and then make a second one almost the same, just with one variable changed - that way I could see how this one particular change affects the rest - I think some things fell into place after that + the challenge is less boring this way. Ps. I am starting perspective II next week, but I plan also to finish those hellish cylinders before that unite challenge.

Its awesome. You clearly understand what you are doing. I love the way you are attaching an arm to a torso - this is for me the hardest part of mannequinization and I couldnt make it look not-wonky. I am sooo stealing this idea

I find the cylinders challenge much harder than the box one, mainly because of checking. I am not sure if I am finding my minor axis right correctly. I THINK (I am not sure though - maybe someone will correct me) we should find the widest part of the ellipse and check if it is perpendicular to the major axis - I think it aligns with what @Danet said, but again I feel a bit lost about it. I am curious how you will feel about the second part of the challenge - drawing ellipses within a box - I'll be honest I had my crisis there, and I quit, but seeing you going strong motivates me to go back, so thanks for that! :)

Thanks! I started draw a box, I have a love-hate relationship with it - love the site hate my luck of ability to draw "a simple box".

Thanks!