Figure Drawing Fundamentals
Gesture
The Bean
Structure
Landmarks
Robo Bean
Mannequinization
Balance
Exaggeration
Proportions
Measuring
Shading
Figure Drawing Demo
Closing Thoughts
Figure Drawing Critiques – Robo Bean
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Critiques of student's Robo Bean drawings.
Newest
Lin
3mo
Finished analysing and learning from the ones shown! Here is my 2 day progress; the first are so bad looking back. 😅 Now it's time to do on my own; I bought Sekaa's album specially for this. The most annoying part is spotting perspective errors and not knowing how to fix them yet...but practicing more poses tends to answers past questions along the way.
Eveline Rupenko
7mo
Here is the same assigment after watcjing the critique video!
Samuel Sanjaya
7mo
doing some robobean for warmups, i need some feedback and critiques on this.

Cade Burdett
7mo
Went a little farther than just two boxes, but I was having fun. I can see a difference in my drawing skills. Please if you have any feedback let me know!
@aeyt
8mo
Today's boxes. Been doing about a page of these a day for a couple days now, gonna keep at it until I feel more comfortable with proportions and perspective and then move on to mannequinization 👍
Denitsa Dineva
8mo
I've been practicing for a while, but I still struggle with accuracy. I find it quite challenging drawing the right proportions from the beginning, I erase a lot until I reach a finished drawing. Anyway, I hope I am on the way !
SpeedNin
1yr
I went at this again with a different thought process after watching the critiques here. Started paying less attention to detail attempting to pay more attention to the overall shape and structure of the boxes. This feels alot better then before! I just want to toss these out there, if any of you have any critiques for this that you may see feel free to help me out. Let's all keep striving to improve!

John Harper
1yr
Every time you start again, you should feel more confidence. You have inspired me to start again at the bean and robobean. I've been doing several faces, upper-torso studies. I feel pretty good about them and will post soon. On a side note, pay close attention to what Proko says about the proportions of the rib cage and pelvis. That will help you in this current exercise.

@adoree_
1yr
Robo beans I've done. Any advice on how to improve? I'd greatly appreciate it :)
Shubham Chaudhary
1yr
Here is robo-bean submission. This was the most fun assignment till now and I'm awaiting feedback

@losen
1yr
Would appreciate some feedbacks! The hardest thing for me is to gauge the surface/tilts of the boxes and to render them a box (my eyes keep telling me that it was a not a box and there were many smaller cuts of surfaces I needed to add)

Caitlin
1yr
Here are some of my robo-beans. Any comments or critique are welcome. References are posted, but unfortunately reference #6 got lost, sorry about that. :(
Johnathan
1yr
I think you did a good effort to capture the gesture. Just wondering, are you new to persective? It looks like some of your boxes are not in perspective. It doesnt have to be perfect, but if its off too much it gets noticeable. Good lucky with your studies!
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@dmartin0522
1yr
Here's my attempt on the Robo Bean. I'm not sure if I got any of these right. It's definitely the most challenging exercise I've done so far. I've watched and followed along Proko's videos.

Caitlin
1yr
Hey there! Great work on these, I think your second attempt especially on pose 3 looks really good. One thing I would suggest for your second attempt on pose 4 is to make the upper box longer. It seems shortened compared to the pose where it is stretched out.
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@dmartin0522
1yr
I redid poses 1, 3 and 4 after watching the Robo Bean critique video. Hopefully they came out better than my previous attempt.
Bre
1yr
Robo Bean - Attempt #1
Christopher Beaven
1yr
Hi Bre, While I was watching the critique I did some draw overs with your same images. I liked the images you used so I figured I would try them myself. I'm not sure if my solutions are correct but I'll put it here to see if it helps you. Let me know. :)
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Bre
1yr
Attempt #2

@fanfan
2yr
I practice quite a bit but main issues for me is hard to observe the RIGHT angle, I drew first and pause without seeing Proko's demo, then really frustrated that cannot see the correct tilting/ rotation... still trying to figure out where I see the object wrong...Anyone have good advice on that please share with me...no improvement is beating me carrying on..
lifeflame
2yr
I so admire how clean your lines are and how you've given us photo references.
Page 1, upper right one where you compare yours with Proko's... I think the main difference is that Stan is using the rib-cage for the box; where are you are describing the whole torso with yours. So if you look at his rib-cage it is a lot more vertical than the one you "x"ed.
One way I am very rigorous with myself is that I overlay my version on top of the original. This is very easy if you are drawing digitally (with layers + some transparency); but you could also use tracing paper. That way I can see immediately where I am off, and by how much. Since Stan sometimes exaggerates his angles, so when I overlay his on the original it also allows me to see how much he has exaggerated by; and thus I have an objective basis to gauge angles and measurements.
Aidan van Niekerk
2yr
Hello everybody! This one was tough, I especially had a hard time with Number 5. I would really appreciate any feedback :)
lifeflame
2yr
Bravo! love how clean your lines are; and the poses are really interesting (and difficult !)
Number 1 the top edge of the torso rectangle, the line I think should be slanting downwards (check the angle of the shoulders), which would give your upper box a more of a tilting backwards feeling. The front of the pelvis box I think faces more away from us (rotating slightly more the left of the picture), which would give us more of the twist.
Number 5, this is a tough one ! The shadow patch on the right shoulder is deceptive, as is his right leg, which is angled out from the pelvis. I had to get down to mimic this pose with my body to try and understand this one and after a lot of work I conclude that your correction (b) has all the angles as I would measure them. But intuitively, something feels slightly off. Is it the lighting and/or the addition of the arms that is making the torso feel like it has a bigger twist than the actual landmarks of a robo-bean ?
thanks for making me really analyse these poses.

@rigloo
2yr
Some of my robo beans. Would appreciate the feedback.

Alexander Andreasson
2yr
Man this is not easy, struggling quite a bit, any critique / tips are more than welcome!
Mark Manthorpe
2yr
I think you're running when you should be trying to walk. What I mean by this is your lines are too quick and you're committing too soon and not considering the forms of the rib-cage and hip. You also seem to be also struggling with perspective.
I'd suggest going over the bean again and practice drawing more boxes in perspective. I've included below an edit of your image to help. I'll just go over that now.
The bean as drawn in green is how I like to approach the bean, I like to find the vertical and horizontal lines that help show it in 3D object in space, this makes it a lot easier to then make a box out of it because you've done a lot of work. .
I hope this is helpful. 😋
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Mark Manthorpe
2yr
Robo bean practice.
The oblique section is always tricky for me. 😅

@hiflow
2yr
Hey, great work on these, the boxes feel like solid 3D objects and you're getting a good ribcage to pelvis relation.
I suggest you draw though your boxes as if you have x-ray vision, it will help you with some of the harder perspectives. We're learning here, so our goal isn't to make a pretty drawing,
You should also exaggerate the backwards tilt of the ribcage and the forward tilt of the pelvis on some poses. You did it beautifully on the 5th image! Try applying it more everywhere, for example I feel like it could be pushed more on images 6-9. I'm not a pro so I may be wrong.
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Andrea Anaya
2yr
The hardest ones for me are the ones that have a lot of overlap. I wrote down the images that I wasn't sure about. Wanted to submit one more of these before going on to the next lesson. Definitely in some parts I use to many overlapping lines because I'm trying to find the box. Would appreciate any other feedback!

Josh mcgrath
2yr
@Jesper Axelsson I've completed my robo bean and I feel pretty proud of them any advice is useful and am I ready for the mannequin lesson?
2yr
Really nice! You're definitely ready for the mannequin lesson 👍!
Andrea Anaya
2yr
I know I'm not Jesper but I think you're ready for the next lesson.
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