I wish I watched this part before diving into the figure drawing course! So helpful!

Is this section similar to the gesture sections in figure fundamentals. I remember in that video Stan mentioned the terms are sometimes interchangeable. Either way, I’m grateful for more practice in this area 🙏

Hi Stan, The course is brilliant and it helps. I often feel I am simply not pouring enough time into it! I am honestly struggling to feel like I am making progress with it all, the dynamic shapes part was difficult and now this hah. Lets keep going. Things are tough when you're a slow learning and have to rewatch things constantly. Just writing this for those out there that might seem discouraged. Just keep going! Even if you feel you're not really getting it or making progress! Keep going. <3 (Neuro spicy ftw)

Hi Stan, I’ve been studying your Drawing Basics course, and I have to say—it’s awesome! No BS, just pure, structured, practical learning with tons of helpful assignments. I really appreciate the time and effort you’ve put into creating such a well-organized, systematic approach for beginners like me. Big shoutout to you for making this available—I'm already seeing improvements every single day! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and making learning so engaging! 🎨🙌

Here are my first attempts for this project. The numbers to the references are according to the image packets Proko gave us. This is before watching the demo :)

This was probably one of the best breakdowns on how to approach and do gestures. I tried doing this a few months ago before I enrolled to Proko and it didn’t go well for me lol. These are my notes so far and I plan to go back to these and add more notes as I plan to focus on this exercise for a while. Thank you Stan :)

So I'm about halfway through watching this video for the second time, and I'm still a little confused. What's a rhythm? Stan's just drawing lines, and I'm not seeing the logic here. What would a not-rhythm line be? What makes some of these lines rhythms and what would make them not? Somebody please help.

I've been waiting for this Gesture Shorthand my whole life! Thank You!

Had a bit of a hard time with rhythms, but I'm getting the hand of it right now, I should loosen my line weight next time with confidence.

Hey Proko-sians! I just finished watching this and well, something dropped in for me as I was making notes on the PDF he speaks to at the end. Most of us are newish to drawing. Many others are not. If you are familiar with figure drawing at all, you've probably heard of Loomis and Reilly and other's I'm sure. They all present systems. I'm a student at drawingFORCE as well and Mike as the Forceful Method. What I'm trying to say is, there are so many ways artists think of "gesture" and "flow" and "connection" and they all present their way of thinking. If you are just starting out, this way of thinking might feel a bit magical, and seeing the natural rhythms of things feels elusive. Remember, Stan has built up years of knowhow, intuition through practice and teaching. It isn't always easy to convey this deep knowing, so the rationalizations for why he "indicates" things the way he does are the important parts to focus on here. Study (reproduce) the examples and indications he provides in the video/PDF and speak aloud the rationalizations. Internalize. At the end of the day, it's easy to say but hard to do: Slow down. Look. Think. Understand. Practice the mark. Make the mark. Accept the mark. Move on. That's quick-sketch. And of course, try to have fun! It will make it that much easier. I heard it takes about 200 repetitions of a thing to master it. But make it fun and it will only take 30 or so. Good luck out there!

That was really fun to go through. I'm been having trouble to gestures, so I'm hoping this helps me figure things out more.

Came here from being in the middle of all my other studies, honestly, the two videos and the talk around rhythms made it so much easier to understand than the gesture course, these would have been fantastic to have right at the beginning. So many aha moments.

In How to Draw the Marvel Way and the Loomis books, often a figure is started with a gestural stick figure, 3 ovals representing the head, torso, and pelvis and the limbs are just gestural lines. I understand that there are many ways to approach the topic of gesture but what do our instructors think of this method?

Great lesson. I have a question. In the next to last arm rhythm, I tried it out before watching Stan do it and created this. I tried to convey the locked out arm with a slight curve opposite of how the arm should bend. I know there's no specific correct way to do this but is mine a good gestural representation? As it is somewhat different from Stan's.

I had tons of fun doing this challenge and some poses were difficult but I muscled through it and tried my best to fix my errors and refer back to your video ‼️‼️

Thank you for that presentation. So helpful.

could i think of visual alignments, the term Stan uses when talking about Rhythms, as the arms in the Michelangelo: The creation of Adam. as Gods hand flows into Adams hands with the fingers touching. The Rhythms, the visual alignments is the flow between his arm and adams arm? I'm trying to wrap my head around it if possible. Thank you in advance.

I've drawn using observation skills (replicating what I saw) then studied some of the poses with the image beside it, finding the relevant rythms. Most of them used quite a lot of time to do, about 15 to 30 minutes each. Have a good day!

I haven't done these studies in awhile. I started learning gesture way back from your courses (along anatomy pretty much everything you guys do) and these lession are a real fun refreshers for the principals of gesture. Also just to note: I am using lazy nazumi at 25 smoothing, my lines are much worse on papier but I do try to practice regulary on my sketchbook to better my lines. I don't know where to post these really. **NSFW warning for the reference pictures !!**

I've just finished the last of these, which were a lot of fun. It was good to try a larger body type too, which posed (no pun intended) a different kind of challenge.