First try with the bean
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@andypandi
Feedback will be very much appreciated. The reference poses were from the first Figurary video of Croquis Cafe.
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Vincent Duncombe
Hey @andypandi. I am just starting out as well and since I have already gone through my bean critique I thought I would try my hand at giving you some feedback while you wait for the professionals :) . First of all good job on trying your own poses! I think this is key, as it is often easy to follow what Stan is doing. But the ability to do it when you don't have a reference is where the rubber hits the road. So it's nice to see you taking on some new poses. I think that you are well on your way with these beans. There are some key things that I think this lesson is trying to teach and I can see a lot of those coming out in your drawing. Mainly 1. whether the top or bottom bean is tilting towards or away from you (Is the person leaning forward or backwards?). This determines in large part where you should place the overlap. In quite a few of your beans I can see this. The next part is how is the beans are twisting, which determines the center line running on the beans. It also seems like you have quite a good grasp of that in these beans as well. So good job. What I would recommend and what I think would take your beans to the next level is simply working on design. What I had to keep in mind in this lesson is that the goal wasn't to make the beans look like the person that I was drawing (don't focus on contour). Instead just focus on making both beans look like well rounded ovals that smoothly connected. If you look back over your drawings the beans that are move oval like look great! So focus on keeping that design oval-ish and don't get caught up on making the design match the actual look of the person being drawn in the pose. Remembering that the goal of this lesson is just a conceptual tool to help you get familiar with (and recognize) how the body torso is tilting and twisting. I hope this helps! Again, I think that you really seem to have a good grasp of concepts being taught in this lesson (as I understand them). I think if you focus on the design staying ovals with the overlaps and center lines and you should be good to go!
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@andypandi
Thank you so much! I love how detailed your comment was, I will definitely take some notes! In addition to following your advice, I will try to work with ink or with a brush to try to improve the quality of my line as well.
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Kristian Nee
I agree with @Vincent Duncombe! Everything he said was spot on. Something I'd say is to stick to doing those bean exercises for a little while, but start trying it out in action! Draw from figure a bit and see if you can apply it to more and more complex shapes. To me it seems like you understand the concepts, it'll just take some practice to get better.
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