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Dive into gesture drawing's why, what, and how, mastering techniques like the 16-line method and shape gestures to capture the figure's essence.
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Educator, painter, and art historian. Author of Figure Drawing: Design and Invention and Gesture Drawing: Dynamic Movement and Form.
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![@klester]()
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![@justjen]()
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![Vincent GIL]()
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Use what you learned to create your own proportion chart.
- Mark Out Your 8 Sections:
Make a chart dividing the figure into eight equal parts, from the head to the pelvis. - Detail Upper Body:
Divide the upper sections into thirds to accurately place the rib cage. - Add Main Body Parts:
Draw the head, rib cage, and pelvis, considering how they align with the spine. - Sketch Limb Positions:
Outline the legs with simple lines to show their direction.
Deadline - submit by Feb 16, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Drew the chart once along with the lecture, and here is the attempt at drawing it from memory a day later.
Width of the torso and pelvis ran away from me a bit in the front view, but everything more or less ended up in the right place.
Loving the course so far! The 16 line method for gesture drawings has made doing at least the 2 minute drawings a lot easier for me.
I’m submitting my assignment.
When I tried to draw it freehand, the balance was way off, so I somehow managed to finish the assignment using a ruler, haha.
Is this normal? Should I try to avoid using a ruler or the transform tool?
Here is my attempt for the proportions assignment. The left image is my attempt before the critique, the right image is after watching the critique video.
@Steven Michael Hampton how often would you say we should come back to this exercise for tweaks or corrections as an artist or just making sure we remember the proportions? Every 3 months?
Ended up doing two, the first one was working alongside Michael and the second one was through memory on my own
I just added to the notes I took as I watched previous video. The first pic is a little hard to see, but everything is level and square. The 2nd pic is closer, but at an angle, so it exaggerates and distorts (just sharing so you can see details more clearly). If anything is unclear or needs improvement, feel free to let me know. Thanks
Hi everybody ! Thanks for the great lesson. Useful concept and i will transpose it to others animals and maybe play with proportions to see what happened.
Good day and have fun.
This was pretty fun! I'm glad I can finally draw someone with proper proportions, feedback would be much appreciated 🙂
I popped over here after doing the gesture lessons in the Drawing Basics course and have to say I'm really enjoying this course so far. I really like how straight forward Michael's explanations are. Anyway, here's my first attempt at drawing these proportions.
I think I'll make drawing this a part of my warmups for a little while. I really want to internalize this.
