I see this is a presale. There are assignments. Will there be student critiques provided as the course is released? Similar to how Stan does with his courses as he rolls them out.

Hi @Michael Hampton, will there be a section in this course that will tackle on getting the likeness of the model or reference?

Excited to start this new course. I've already purchased it! Do you recommend taking your courses before or after studying anatomy?

Wish we had a little more time on hands. Overall the straight hands are quite straightforward. As they interact with objects or become more dynamic it gets complicated.

Hi @Michael Hampton Do I have to purchase the book for your lessons?

These are very messy, but I understand the underlying concepts. My question is however is separate. I don't wish to underplay the importance of these exercises or fundamentals, but I find myself wanting to move on to form construction, gesture and anatomy since I've done those to a good degree. What would be your advice? I know these are never really mastered but I also don't want to neglect them but I've found myself wanting to move to your lessons on form construction and more in-depth gesture lectures since I've watched some of your content on YouTube and have a few gesture drawings that I drew alongside your videos. If need be I can share some of those gesture drawings for you to gauge where I am and better advise me. Besides that, I love your method of teaching and looking forward to the rest of this course.

Hi @Michael Hampton what the brush do you use in photoshop for construction and can it be added to downloads

Hello Michael, it is really a pleasure for me to have enrolled in this course. I have been following your methodologies for figure drawing for years now and I found them extremely effective. In any case, there is one aspect of your method I am not sure I can really grasp, either from your original book or within your current course. It seems to me that the list of steps you use for building anatomy out of gesture does not follow a strict order. In some cases you first start adding directions and tilts to your gesture, then you create cylinders and boxes with perspectives, you assess the proportions of the volumes through landmarks. At that point, you superimpose more realistic volumes on the basic ones, and ultimately you refine the anatomy. In this video you seem to do something slightly different. You first create some anatomical "drafts" on your gesture, then you add landmarks on your construction and use the basic volumes to assess the perspective. If you have nailed the perspective, you keep refining the anatomy. Would it make sense to claim that the list of points do not really follow an order and changes in relation to your level of expertise? Many thanks. Dewey

240317 Sakura sketchbook. Mechanical pencil HB.

I tried to follow along but it got a bit messy. I think my head was too wide to start and I needed readjust things. This was very helpful though. I am going to start practicing breaking down individual parts in the way you showed. Side note once you add the spine to the ribcage it kind of reminds me of a popsicle or a sign.

I followed along, and a lot of this just made so much sense. The "1/2 & 1/3" system is such a nice simplification of what usually feels like a daunting thing.

Thank you for the course. Can you tell me which drawing-software you are using in the videos?

For S-curves I decided to have a bit of fun and play with river-like landscapes. The contrast setting wasn't really cooperating but you aren't actually missing anything. The last page (the one where you have 8 boxes) I was fatigued just trying to "wing it" admittedly and paid the penalty for not taking the time to do ghosting. Ballpoint pen is more forgiving than any other pen and that wasn't going to save a reckless lead weighted wrist then!

I'm still hoping that I can figure out how to draw hands properly.

Very excited for this course. I think breaking things down into a process will benefit me a lot. I really like that you mentioned something I have also observed about expectations we get from artists on social media. It can be really frustrating when you can't communicate what you are seeing quickly. I have been really been trying to be more patient with myself and accept that I have to iterate on my ideas a lot before they start to take shape.

Thank you Michael for a wonderful course! I jumped in a bit late but it really helped me. Thank you again!

if you also sculpt in 3d, can you apply this exercise by practicing modeling the forms?

are there any more resources to pursue this type of gesture? the other one used works for me when I want to make a realistic drawing but this method is easy to stylize. Amazing course and book by the way! huge fan of your work

As mentioned in gesture basics 1 Its quite difficult to get the direction if various gesture lines without being thrown off by the contours, eg the neck. Did an experiment of setting up the pose with Proko's Skelly app and I think it might help to initially get a feeling for those basic volumetric forms (without muscle contours) in my head. Not a substitute for real figures but I think it's helped my understanding of anatomy a bit. Just need to get all this down to 15 lines!