Joseph Osley
Fort Plain, NY
Mental illness survivor attempts to reconnect to mark making. Hilarity ensues.
Gannon Beck
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1d
136th Day of Proko and counting.
30 second, two minute and five minute sketches.
Joseph Osley
19h
Some great shape design going on here. Looking good!
2d
135th Day of Proko and counting.
30 second gestures.
2d
134th Day of Proko and counting.
Some two minute gestures tonight.
2d
These are terrific. I always love seeing the line from shoulder to heel like in the first figure. Your bean is beaning, as all beans should. Whole lot of verve throughout.
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Here are some gesture drawings from the last few days with a couple random bits at the end.
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4d
133rd Day of Proko and counting.
Bean practice this morning, followed by two minute gestures. I'm throwing in progress on one of my current master studies for good measure. This kind of covers the breadth of my studies right now.
4d
That study is really coming together. Looking awesome! I think those beans would make Preston Blair happy. You are killing it! Keep it up.
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beans are simply the best
they can wear any vest
legs arms then so
next thing you know
you've got more than a butt and a chest
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5d
132nd Day of Proko and counting.
Some two minute sketches this evening.
Asked for help
My gesture drawing practice for this week. I tried NMA timed video on youtube and did it twice. I feel like the second time around the poses turned out better.
Once again, sorry for the quality of the pics. I have to figure out some better lighting so that the whole page is lit evenly.
5d
These are excellent! Your lines are so elegant and you've captured the foreshortened perspectives nicely. I struggle with these "laying down" style poses myself but these feel well grounded and solid.
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131st Day of Proko and counting.
Two and Five minute sketches tonight.
6d
Feel and convey, feel and convey.. think i over-felt. It was my first time to gesture draw with an older model. Doublespeeding the vid amplified his instability during the pose which, to my surprise, got translated into my lines unintentionally. Fascinating, but got a bit freaked out so i did another session with a totally different model to shake that off.
i started with 30s w/ these. Still lagging so much after being out of practice for a while.
5d
These are some wonderful drawings. I think you captured the tension inherent in an older frame; there's a beautiful fragility that highlights the determination required and effort expended by the model.
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6d
130th Day of Proko and counting.
10 second gestures.
Okay, this was pretty ridiculous. I found my self laughing a lot as I fumbled through them. Still fun, though.
6d
Wow. You absolute madman, you actually did it. And I recognize the poses! They have all their limbs! Insane. Bravo, sir; bravo.
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2nd post of the day in here.
A little while back @Martha Muniz was nice enough to give me some feedback regarding shading. She pointed me to a video on shading by Dorian Iten on YouTube that was very helpful. I revisited the video tonight and took a crack at it with digital tools.
Shading is a big area of growth for me. I've done a lot of t-shirt and comic book illustrations, but the style I work in is far less subtle than what I'm trying to develop. Dorian has a shading course here with a lot of free lessons. I delved into those a bit tonight as well.
The figures I've drawn after watching a few videos were done with the intent to find the terminator (where the form light meets the shadow shape), which is an exercise Dorian recommends. I'll eventually buy the premium course because Dorian clearly has an approach I want to get deep into, but I'll wait a little while until I finish a few of the open courses I'm in.
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I am having one of the worst drawing weeks of my entire life. My hands are trash. I have essential tremor always but it has been unhinged this week. I am house sitting so I don’t have a scanner and everything is awful. You’ve all been sharing such fantastic work I feel obligated to balance it out with my failure. I’m just struggling. Raving over.
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8d
128th Day of Proko and counting.
Twenty second sketches.
This is a bit of an experiment to see how fast I can get a gesture down. When doing urban sketching, where models don't sit still, this is a practical concern. There is tension between how long I can hold the image of a pose in my head and how fast I can get it down before the image evaporates from memory.
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Wow. Closing in on the elusive zero second sketch, I see. I think the way you’re framing it, keeping it in your mind to get it down, is really important. I’ve been trying to project the image I’m drawing from onto the page as I draw as a mental exercise. It’s hard to do. I love these. The economy of line yields such a minimal representation that captures the pose and movement of the form regardless. I’ll give twenty a shot but if I manage a full pose it will be a miracle.
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129th Day of Proko and counting
Thirty second, two minute, and five minute sketches.
8d
These are so good, Gannon. I wish I was at a level where I could be more constructive in my critiques to help you better. All I have to offer is encouragement and adoration. Damn my eyes! Also hands.
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9d
127th Day of Proko and counting.
100 thirty second sketches.
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10d
I find that theres something about the belly and the hip that compels me when i'm drawing these female figures
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11d
The rightmost middle figure is beautiful. These are great. Solid with grounded anatomy without losing the movement. Fantastic!
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11d
125th Day of Proko and Counting.
I spent a good part of the evening reviewing the bean lessons in Stan's figure drawing course. When I did my timed figures tonight (5 minutes each) I built them on the bean exercise. The bean parts are in blue.
11d
Without the bean we’re all just a pile of extremities gone solo. It really ties the room together.
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