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Ewan Coates
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I want to be able to draw primitives in realistic-looking relationships to each other when they're not nicely aligned or all in the same orientation. For example, 2 separate cubes on the same plane but rotated to different angles, or a 3d "peace" sign with those 3 120º angles. Along with drawing circles/ellipses in perspective (which I just flub at the moment), being able to solve these problems would help me a lot in drawing solid-looking compound objects, especially from imagination, whether they're the human form, buildings, or space ships.
kaitei
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4yr
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Hello, I'm currently studying the Figure Drawing Fundamentals course. I'm aiming to do gesture exercises as a warm up before study sessions.
I still find gesture quite difficult to grasp. I often run out of time or I get too hasty and feel like I could have used my time more carefully. Proportion feels very challenging. I'm not sure how I could become better at it. It feels quite difficult to focus in general, there are so many concepts to keep in mind.
I'm posting some 2 minute poses from today as my first test post. I'm very excited about Proko 2.0! I hope to learn to use this website quickly. I'm very grateful for any critique.
I really like the CSI lines you’ve used in a lot of those poses. It’s not easy really getting the gestural curve of something that looks quite straight like a limb, but you’ve done pretty well I’d say. Just be alert to instances where a gesture line gets more complicated than an S curve, and consider in those cases how to simplify it. Another thing you could do more (and this is helped by the looseness of your sketches) is try to connect gestural lines in rhythms that cross one body part to another.
I second jean marc in saying that proportions are secondary to gesture, so don’t worry too much at this stage about getting relative lengths and things just right.
