!!! BONUS EXERCISE !!! FLOUR SAC PEOPLE
14d
Upload your flour sac drawings here and I will critique them!
Use everything you’ve learned across the Proko world to render these guys however you like.
Im looking for ACTION and FUN
I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!
<3
Asked for help
Fun exercise! I'm going to do this more often from now on. Some of these were quite a head-scratcher for me. Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks! :)
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5d
Holy cow! These are amazing.
I love everything about them. The line-of-action reads across all of these. They are all so dramatic and different.
The guy getting stretched on the hooks across the top looks like he might break soon!
The variable line weights are thoughtfully placed and the colors are a nice touch too!
All I can offer here is perhaps another level of this exercise-
Next time you draw these, try drawing multiple poses across the same action. Often, there is more energy in the moments right before or after the actual moment of impact.
This is all. Great work! Thanks for sharing your amazing drawings!
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7d
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4d
aww
It’s funny because I love animation and have always wanted to learn and this is one of the exercises a lot of people recommend but I never actually got around to it. Aaron Blaise has a great video about it for anyone who wants to explore the animation side of it.
I’d love to animate it one day but right now I’m juggling too many things: doing Drawabox, Proko, and writing so I just did some sketches inspired by Red Dead Redemption 2. I love the game and I’m replaying it, so that’s where the inspiration came from :) I added a water gun instead of a real one haha. I had a lot of fun doing them!!
I would love to render them in the future, I'm not using color at all right now :(
Thanks Rachel for the exercise!! I love how you use the colors on your reviews, they always look amazing.
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7d
Wow!! An outlaw with a horse! Amazing work on this.
All I have is positive things to say about these guys. The flour sac that’s resting look relaxed. The one on the horse is more active. You captured the ‘line of action’ well in all of these. Even the wanted poster is filled with character!
All I have is one small note about concave lines. It’s very minor.
Great work! Thank for sharing!
Im glad you find my critiques helpful!
Asked for help
I used Roger Federer magical forehand reference to draw floor sacs! I drew 5 o floor sacs. Hope you like it. Please give me the suggestions on how to improve more on drawing this floor sac method! Thanks! @Rachel Dawn Owens
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7d
This is such great reference to pull from! All your flour sacs are twisting and turning in all sorts of ways. Lots of variations. This is a really good exercise for animators.
You might be overthinking some of these. There’s lots of pinches and twists in your drawings. You could have a more dramatic effect if you emphasized the biggest action. Most of your drawings could be simplified to one pinch and one BIG stretch.
(Except #12. That one should be more twisted up the way you have it already. #12 looks good already.)
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Now I share with you the ones I did with reference. Thanks for the boost @Rachel_Dawn_Owens
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8d
I love the little expressive marks above their heads!
You did a great job abstracting the reference. If you wanted to make these guys even more expressive, exaggerate the angles of the hips and shoulders more.
I made this draw-over to help explain:
Hey Tommy
I just looked at your flower sac drawings and I have to say I'm impressed—I think they're all adorable and sooo creative—I also love the color and the soft shading—just great!
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12d
I LOVE these! The two dancing together with the heart is perfect. They flow together so well!
You could push the twisting actions even further to get more of an effect-
These are all wonderful examples! Thank you for sharing!
iam a beginner so I haven't done much of rendering , but I hope these are dynamic.Any Critique is appreciated , thank you
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11d
The last couple of pages are especially expressive! You really pushed the action on those ones.
Putting the flour sac people into a comic format was such a good idea! You added another level of creativity to this project that I did not expect.
For epic actions that you want to exaggerate like punching or kicking, sometimes it’s way better to draw the wind-up or the follow-through rather than the exact moment that the kick connects. I think that this page from Stan Lee’s How to Draw the Marvel Way explains this really well.
Drawing the pose so literally can stiffen it up. Loosen it up. Stretch it out. Pinch it together.
Keep having fun with it. Thanks for sharing!
These were fun! I'm not sure if they are totally still flour sacks or if I added too much of actual limbs. Some were with reference (people) some imagination.
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11d
Your drawings are beautiful. The little guy with the sword and shield looks so firm and proud while others are more floppy. You have a wide range of expressive flour sacs here.
Your drawings might benefit from adding some more straights. Your curves and S curves look beautiful. But a few straight lines could give your drawings the structure they need to get to the next level. Design the straights and curves so that they alternate in a way that makes sense to you,
Here is my example.
Hope this is helpful thanks for sharing!!
I found the exercise very fun. I did it without references of real movements of people, which I could do for the next time.
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12d
I love the little expressions and character added to these guys! The wiggle lines around a couple of them adds some extra movement.
The colors make it more fun as well.
I think you could push the action more if you exaggerated the areas that have a pinch or stretch. Looking at some figures for reference could help with coming up with new poses. The reference could also make them more stiff if you focus too much on the photos. Don’t be afraid to bend and break these guys in any which direction.
Nice stuff! Thanks for sharing!!
Cool, looks like fun! I animated a flour sack a while back when learning some of the animation basics
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14d
Yes!! This is a really great animation! The pinch action at the start provides the energy for the stretch afterwards. I wanna see this guy hop off the ground next!
@Rachel Dawn Owens nice this is going to be fun! I’ll get my attempt as soon as possible. Is there a due date? I just wannna make sure I don’t miss it. 😄🙌🏻
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14d
I will provide drawovers throughout the next several weeks atleast.
NO DUE DATE for this one, Il keep it open for now.
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14d
BONUS EXERCISE !!!
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11d
awww
