Assignment 2: Soul Sketching and Gesture Drawings
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I heard Rembert's advice about gesture drawing around July last year but that it was 60 1 minute drawings in 6 months. Its pretty rough to do everyday but I look back every two weeks and the drawings improve continually. My 6 months is up on the 28th but ill probably do a similar routine for heads or hands after. If anyone else wanted to take the challenge, you just want to make sure you have time to draw for fun also or the grind will get you. I was lucky enough to have a community also doing the challenge to help motivate me to continue. I attached today's and my first day of gestures.
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Thank you for bringing me back the joy of sketching. Hope will also learn to love it more :)
I tried this exercise a few times now and boy I feel very humbled by these.
I wanted to post those when they get better first but I decided to attach some of my terrible drawings to ask for advice.
My gesture approach is usually very different and I can't even finish the 2 minute gestures here in time. Should I stay with my method of gesture drawing or keep practicing those I attached?
After going through hands, heads, hips, upper body and legs, I went back to do the soul of drawing assignment. Anatomy is very hard especially in men, there were times I had the proportions wrong and it’s harder doing it in ballpoint pen.
i wanted to go back and see if I improved and I hope I did. I’m gonna rewatch the hand video, I noticed that I’m not good at it yet. 😆
Hi there, Tommy,
I think you are making wonderful progress with your artwork! There’s a lot of positive developments on display in these drawings. In particular, I noticed that the proportions are believable, the expressions are clear and communicate the emotions of the characters well, and the figures stand in perspective in a way that I struggled with when I first began drawing figures!
As for the soul of the drawing, feel free to loosen up and let the energy of your hand’s movement carry through into your work! I can see the beginnings of this fluidity in the poses of your characters, the kneeling woman in particular, and I have found that this freedom of movement is something that develops over months and years of practice, much like how one writes a signature. Adding form and perspective can stiffen the figures, so it’s a constant balancing act incorporating the structure provided by form and perspective and the fluidity of gesture or soul drawing.
I can see that you’re working hard to put together all of the components of an effective drawing, from form to anatomy to proportion, not to mention perspective, facial expression, and likeness. This hard work is paying off! It’s possible the pressure to make a “good” drawing may be affecting you. That expectation can be stultifying, and it might prevent your hand from moving as easily and confidently across the page, inhibiting the expression of the drawing’s soul. It’s something to keep in mind as you continue your art.
To wrap up, I really like that you studied both front and back views of your characters, and I love the imagination at play in the characters, especially that tiger’s head on the shoulder of your last character. I’m excited to see what you invent next. Keep up the fantastic work, artist!
Would it be correct to fit the ref. pictures to your goal? Like, if I want to be able to paint people in different clothing from imagination, then I have to take reference pics of people in clothing and do these quick daily studief from them, and not only from naked poses?
I'm certainly not as prolific as Rembert, but I am trying to do at least a few minutes of gesture / mannequin sketches each day while bouncing around the other course material.
Here's where I'm at so far (progress generally flowing from left to right). Even after this small number of iterations, I feel like there's been some improvement to the flow and 3d feel of these figures.
5-minute gesture drawings.
I don't put in as much time into gesture drawing as I used to because of work, so it's nice to have an excuse for it since I enjoy it so much. It's almost therapeutic to me.
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3mo
The pose with the block has great flow. Nice work!
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3mo
I love these!
I am a bit confused with the assignment instructions. Is there a set amount of drawings we are supposed to complete in X amount of time or is this an extended six-month challenge to where we can just post our progress?
Also, I'm sure I missed it, but is there a reference pack where I can download the photo references that Rembert refers to?
Loving the course so far and very insightful.
Finally got to these guys. Am liking using ballpoint but did the mannequins in Procreate. Not sure if I put enough energy into the final Soul drawing...
My drawings for this assignment. I went through the last video in this module so I had a lot of practice for this drawing
I have 2 pics of from reference drawings and 1 pic of three from imagination. Just a small selection from what I've done. Don't feel like they are great but I'm definitely learning. I wound up drawing along with Rembert during that hour long soul drawing video and it helps. But I felt like when I draw from imagination everything really fell apart as far as how things should look. I'm hoping that going through the other modules in this course will start to fill in those gaps. This is tough!
Here's my result. I really struggled with this one, especially the gesture. I'm going to take some time to work on the gesture and mannequin separately.
Trying to make this a daily thing, tried with 2 min gesture and then 5-10 min mannequin similar to how Rembert does it. I like how it's progressing, will be trying to tie both together in the soul as suggested.
My guess is we will see a critique video from Rembert for this assignment? Do we have an idea when? I'd like to get something submitted, I just don't know how much time I have before the cutoff/filming.
Thanks in advance for any info.
For the two on the right side I used Michael Hamptons gesture drawing technique as an underdrawing, because I find it much harder to achieve aproximately correct proportions without one.
I heard Rembert's advice about gesture drawing around July last year but that it was 60 1 minute drawings in 6 months. Its pretty rough to do everyday but I look back every two weeks and the drawings improve continually. My 6 months is up on the 28th but ill probably do a similar routine for heads or hands after. If anyone else wanted to take the challenge, you just want to make sure you have time to draw for fun also or the grind will get you. I was lucky enough to have a community also doing the challenge to help motivate me to continue. I attached today's and my first day of gestures.
This is so inspirational! Your improvement is so staggering! Well done for keeping it up 🤩
