Hi everyone, I’m taking a course on fundamental figure drawing and have completed gesture and some bean practice. Could you please advise what else I should pay attention to in quick sketches?

While trying to take the bean to the next level I’ve ended up with this muddled cry for help.

There are my drawings (base on the models in Stan's video)... Struggling to find the right size/proposrtion for the beans. Any comment and advice is welcom

Some of my attempts at the examples in the video. I would first watch the demonstration and then pause the video and attempt it myself, only using the example drawing as a guide to help me see the forms from the model. As I wrap my head around the "bean" I look forward to applying it moving forward :)

More practice of the "bean!" Oh, the bean exercise is also great for portraits. Especially when the face is tilted or slanted. Because the face in it's simplest shape is an oval in my opinion.

The “bean” assignment unfortunately slowed my progress in this class. And almost prevented me from even attempting further lessons for two reasons. It was difficult for me to understand why and how you practice the “bean” exercise. Even though Stan clearly explains why in the beginning of the lesson and provides examples of how to perform the exercise. But I guess seeing is believing! Because I saw some students work on another platform (YouTube) where the drawings of the model did not have the correct twist and contortion. It was stiff particularly in the rib cage and pelvis area. The rest of the drawings looked good though. But the center of the drawing was lacking... So, with this new information I will be practicing the “bean” for a while in place of doing quick sketch exercise for an hour. I hope this quick explanation helps any future or current students. Best of luck!

Okay interesting results, some success with still some things to work out. I checkmarked the ones I thought were pretty close to what the answer ended up being. Overall, the main things I am messing up here are wrong overlaps and misidentification of twists. It seems I need to think about what form is necessarily on top, especially if the top/bottom of either form is visible. I need to make of point of dotting my volumes, before I run the center line, just like stan does. I also need to give my center lines a destination and avoid them running parallel to the contour. I think this is fine sometimes but usually, the center will change in distance from the outside contour. Lastly, I need to control the value of my lines better. I'm using the same pencil as stan and he isn't going nearly as dark as me and only presses a little harder when he is working on the pinch, I'll try following suit. I think doing so leads to clearer line quality.

these are from the video, will add more from other reference and from imagination. feedback welcomed!

I like the bean, it makes it easy to visualize the body. I just hope it helps carry over in some way to full figures.

Did the beans following the video, did the exercise two times, image 1-4 is my first try, images 5-8 is my second try, following the video I paused each pose, did the bean, then looked at Stans example after and corrected it in a different drawing next mine (C), then started the video again and tried all the beans myself one more time, followed by Stan's example and fixing what I thought I did wrong. One of my biggest mistakes is I noticed is that I tend to do the ovals too long, tried to fix that in the second attempt, also I'm still getting used to the overhand grip so my lines can get messy, still trying to improve on that, and finally I notice that one of my errors is not pushing the pose enough with the beans, something I tried to amend in the second try as well, I think overall the second try was an improvement, I have to be conscious about my bad habits to fix them in following excercises. Any feedback is appreciated!

Following along with the video. I can see my lines getting cleaner as I go.

this is the same vid as the last. just the first 14mins of it though. but same vid.

Here are my tilt and lean beans for the assignment. I tried drawing along with the video, but I think I still need to do more additional practice. Any feedback is welcome!

Hey! Here's my Tilt and Lean beans based on the figures from the video (minus that last one; didn't see it coming.) My biggest problem is knowing which bean will end up overlapping the other, as I feel like that informs whether or not the bean itself ends up being accurate to the figure. If there's anything else I'm missing, lemme know!

Pretty fun assignment. Any feedback welcome.