Gave it a go - I can't quite intuit where to put the energy lines, they are not quite lines of force for compression working up from the ground, eventually I bounced them between straight and curved lines.

Today's session. I'm finding this very helpful to find de pressure points of a gesture drawing.

All my drawings

Here are my first attempts. I am doing this all on paper, so it is quite hard for me, to see all the bumps, but I think the overall gesture is OK. The envelope helps, but my big problem is, that I tend to draw the legs too short. Is there any way to get rid of that, or do I just continue with the gesture drawings until this issue evaporates on its own?

Hi! I just started your course and I really love it! But I have one question: for the energy flow within the body, you say often „I feel“ - but are there any rules or anatomic reasons for this? thanks a lot for your response!!

Tried a few, this was very tough! I keep using too many lines, and I'm not sure if I'm finding the energy of the pose or its outline.

Tried to capture the gesture and the soul of the figures. Just starting out this course and it's really amazing. Would love to get some feedback.

I need to be better about looking at the overall shape.

i always have issues with proportions so this is a great way to contain my gestures study

Working on these. Not very good but I can improve! This is a cool exercise, because it seems like common sense, but when you force your brain to really ask the question "where is the energy going?" it makes you think and pay more attention for sure.

Oooh. This helped me understand what people mean by rhythm tremendously. Unlocked another brain cell. Thank you.

Hello dear Rembert, or if anyone else could help clarify this for me. I get the energy bouncing through the curves, but I don’t understand why the energy also bounces through the hips (since they’re straight and not curved). Is it because they’re bones? What other cases does this apply to—like knees or elbows, maybe?

is there anything diffreint i should do if im doing this traditionally?

did 10 more!

I feel like mine are pretty bad, and my energy is coming out super fat :(

tried doing 5 today! it's not up to me to rate them but i hope i got the energy thing right. thanks for the lesson! I will do another 5 tomorrow.

It was really fun to do! Tracing is much easier than actual drawing lol. But I don't know if I was doing it correctly tho. So if someone could give me some critique it would be perfect. Thanks!

I'm having some trouble understanding the material in the video. When you says "straights against curves" do you mean the lines bouncing inside the energy flow against the curves of the body (muscle bulging and bones sticking out)? Also, how do you know where to place to straight lines? Most of the time when I look at a picture and try to guess where you'll put those lines I get it wrong. It seems like guess work for me. Is there a way to dig deeper into this and understand where those lines should go?

Thanks for the lesson ! I understand the concept of gesture and energy of the pose (trying to capture the energy and movement of the figure more than anatomy and shape), and I've been drawing "dynamic" stick figures since I'm a kid so I understand the value of it when scaling up to sketching or drawing from imagination more complexe figures. But you're also making us trace those lines bouncing from curves to curves, but what is their purpose ? I don't get how we're supposed to use that knowledge and what they actually refer too. Is it to predict/anticipate muscle bulges ?

general question, are we getting any references? whether gestures or hands or whatever? So many of the videos I've seen so far (block 2 and 3, figures and hands) don't have the reference on screen if any, and I don't really have references without just grabbing stuff I've already used on pinterest or someplace.