2 minute gesture drawing
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Anubhav Saini
The goal with these drawings was to practice drapery and to get the gesture right
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Liandro
Cool, @Anubhav Saini! I think I like these ones even more than the others I commented on before. Great clarity on the gestures. And I gotta emphasize that the second one is definitely my favorite: good foreshortening and nice use of overlapping lines on the arm and leg! As an overall suggestion for gesture, I’d reinforce once again to experiment pushing the exaggeration some more. Please check out my comments and examples on the other posts, as the same logic applies to these. As for the drapery, one thing I’m noticing here that didn’t strike me as hard on the other ones is that the clothes might have gotten a bit too blocky. Since your intention was to practice the drapery, one thing I’d recommend for these ones is pretty much what @Steve Lenze had already mentioned in the others: to try noticing the fold patterns (especially on the softer fabrics) and think through how you can use them to inform the gesture and the forms of the figure underneath. I’m attaching my attempt on the fifth pose, which is the one where I find this aspect easiest to exemplify. Hope this helps! By the way, just one more thing! You made these three different posts with similar content and purpose - when this is the case, one thing I’d suggest for future posts, if possible, would be to combine your entire work in only one post! Since the three posts are all the same exercise and they were done somewhat around the same time, the most relevant comments often apply to all of them, so combining them in just one post makes it much easier for us to view and critique. And I know that the Proko website limits the attached images to a small number, but one thing you could do would be to use an app such as “Layout”, “Canva” or such to make a collage of the photos and sketches that belong to a same theme into one same image. In the case of these three recent posts you made, for example, it could be one post with just three images: one with the sketches and references of the old man, another one with the old woman and a third one with the young woman. Or maybe two collages for each group (a total of six images), if you find it would make the viewing better. Either way, something like this should already make the overall feel a bit more cohesive and organized. Ah, and perhaps, when needed, you might even like to crop the reference images to get rid of the unnecessary information such as date or the smartphone interface. This all takes just a bit of extra work, of course, but I think it’s worth it and should help enhance the presentation of your drawings. Okay, that’s it! :) Keep up your great practice and feel free to keep sharing with us whenever you’d like. Cheers!
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Anubhav Saini
Thank you very much i will follow your advice it is really helpful and for future post i will definitely make a collage
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Kristian Nee
Hey @Anubhav Saini, great job on these. I also looked at the other studies on your profile, you've been making huge improvement. Really cool to see. These are nice studies, you've really put a lot of character into them. I'm assuming that these are intentionally stylized, but something I might add is drawing through more. Right now these are really solid, but I think you could really pump up the energy a lot of you were to draw with more force. When I was at the Watts Atelier, @Erik Gist would always say to draw with so much energy that the lines might go onto your neighbor's drawing pad. He was joking, but the idea of it is still important. I've included some of his quick sketch to give you an idea. If you watch @Ryan Benjamin's video Super Techniques for Aspiring Comic Artists, you can see how he does an underdrawing with red pencil before going in for final pencils. This lets him be super loose without worrying about anything showing up. Again, great job on these and keep up the good work.
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Liandro
Wow, Erik Gist’s work is just a treat to look at!
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Anubhav Saini
Thank you very much sirr from now i will draw with more force and these were not intentionally stylized
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