Steve Lenze
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3yr
Hey Ranma,
I think the biggest thing here is that these are not really gesture drawings. A gesture drawing is when you use one sweeping line to describe the gesture of the whole pose, top to bottom. What you're doing is trying to add anatomy, which is getting in the way of the gesture. Try doing these with your whole arm and not just your wrist. I took one of your poses and drew over it to show you what I mean, notice there is no anatomy. I hope this helps :)
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3yr
Hey Steve ! Thank you very much for your answer and taking the time to draw over my pose ! I think I finally understood what’s the difference between contour drawing and a motion/gesture drawing where the contours are drawn. I’ll try to make poses with one sweeping line and no anatomy at all ! This helps, thank you !
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Critics for my gesture drawings3yr
Hello !
Here are some of my favorite pages/or different approaches of my attempts to gesture drawing, I was wondering if I could get feedback?
I often forget to draw the line of action (even if each time I realize I do that, I am like « oh lord oh no » and I spent five min focusing on the line of action, but then I forget again), and even when I don’t forget it, it feels superficial to make my figure around it. Is it very apparent in my drawings that I am not completely at ease with this line?
thank you all very much !
3yr
Woow ! Your characters are so cute and cool ! I really like their hairs. For an idea of improvement, I hope I don’t say anything wrong, I am not a very advanced artist : I think the stones at the left of the first drawing have too much line weight/are too black and I think the shadow under the right hand should look like fingers? (I don’t know much about shadow though). Otherwise, I agree with Peter, all your characters look lovely, it would be nice to know more about their story !
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3yr
Haven't drawn in a while, and I usually don't post anywhere, but I need to get in the habit for both so here goes. Just followed along to the video today, but I'll start using other references tomorrow. Going to shoot for 20 a day to start. Feeling pretty rusty and messy, 😂
3yr
Hey ! I like your gesture drawing, especially the second page ! I like how you achieve on some figure to use only one line for a whole side (like torso + leg). Wishing you well !
3yr
Hey ! I think your line quality is pretty cool ! I agree with the others comments saying you don’t have to worry about line quality and you can get more loose ! I think I read that an exercise to get looser would be to try to use one line only for each side of the arm and leg so that you are forced to prioritize a very few lines and to not care about accuracy as much as looseness. Like for example in your second page, I think the top right character could have only one C line for the top of the leg to the left, instead of two lines.
(i am a learning student too ! I hope i don’t say anything wrong lol)
also Proko and Marshall made a video on line quality !
https://youtu.be/AlmR-WKdi3c
Even if I am personally not advanced enough to really have to care about line quality right now, I do enjoy making 10 min warmups from the exercises of Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill (drawing horizontals and verticals and varying the pressure on the pen) and also from the first lesson of drawabox (superimposed lines, ghosted lines, etc).
anyways, really cool drawings ! Hope you have a good day !
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