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Educator, painter, writer, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention.
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Discover an alternative approach to gesture drawing by emphasizing shape and part before applying gesture and perspective. This method simplifies the figure into basic forms, enhancing your ability to construct poses with depth and movement.
You'll learn how to:
- Start with the head shape and add the neck as a connecting part.
- Construct the torso using simplified shapes, considering tilt, pinch, and stretch.
- Attach the limbs by focusing on their gesture and how they connect to the body.
- Use overlaps and wrapping lines to convey depth and perspective.
- Practice this approach with different poses and viewpoints.
- Apply tips to improve proportions and flexibility in your drawings.
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Practice an alternative approach to gesture drawing by emphasizing shape and part before applying gesture and perspective. This method simplifies the figure into basic forms, enhancing your ability to construct poses with depth and movement.
Mr hampton, by the way, if you are still responding to posts under here, what would you say is best for inventing poses for making comics and characters? parts gesture or the 16 lines?
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7mo
Kinda depends on how you invent. The 16 line method is best for working out poses without committing to detail and the shape method seems best for inventing a more specific body type quickly.
Here's my attempt just before I watch the actual lesson, going to watch it now and then retry right after
Here's the drawings from after watching the video, and honestly they aren't much different but a lot still feels off about the drawings, but i just can't quite see it.
Could this be considered like something of a half way to mannequinization, but with little less structure?
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7mo
Sure!
Michael I'm sorry but I'm not quite understanding the difference between both methods.
I understand the the first one focuses more on direction rather than outline, and this method uses more blocky construction to define the shape but I'm struggling to see the difference beyond one method looking smoother and the other looking more rigid/defined.
Am I misunderstanding this?
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7mo
The biggest difference is that in the first method I don't close off any shapes. This one purposefully works from one shape to the other. It may look a little more blocky or stiff for that reason alone.
Here’s my attempt at the shape method. I think they’re stiff, but tell me what you think.
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7mo
Nice! I like how you figured out where to put the "axe handles" and how you drew that bottom of the foot! That's always a hard thing to draw.
