Been doing these for about a week now and seeing some improvement! would appreciate some feedback. (Excuse the lined paper, trying to use it up.)

I took quick notes and sketches while watching the lesson.

This is my first time ever attempting gesture drawing. I can't tell if I am doing this right though.. I am working on ignoring the contour and detail as much as I can and just making motion lines and trying to feel them. Do these look right for 30 second attempts? I'm just trying to make sure I'm getting the principals that are being taught here.

I tried with some 30 second poses, and some 2 minute ones too. I've always struggled with gesture, so I'm hoping I can turn it into a strength!

This is my first ever drawing course, started two weeks ago. I'm having a fun but hard time with gesture – especially, I guess, distinguishing between contour and actual gesture. Not sure if I'm grasping the concept sufficiently to move on to the bean... Would love some suggestions on how to improve!

Hello! Here are my gesture drawing submissions. I would really appreciate some feedback as I want to improve. Thank you!

Thanks yo, I am doing this course until you post next video on basics one and also I am bored with shapes so I’ll continue that later. These were done with video. Amazing video amazing knowledge.

30s and 2min

These are 30s homework, I do not know how to progress, 2min homework, I always used to pay attention to the outline, otherwise I can not draw the curve of the body, hope someone can give me some advice

Hey all. I started the course yesterday and thought I'd share my first 4 attempts at gesture drawing (something I'd never been great at) because I think you can see the influence of the lessons as I progress. The first one was completed (as suggested) before watching the instruction video, the three that follow are after watching this video. These are a selection of my favourite drawings from each session, there were about 40-50 each in total. I included the same one twice by accident on the fourth so ignore that!

This is my first attempt at 2 minute gesture drawings. I overestimated that 2 minutes is long enough but yeah, hopefully I am starting to understand the gesture lessons.

I´m frustrated and actually I wanted to complain that I´m not getting better. But I do. 1 week of practice on Jan. 4th = 3rd pic. Yesterday = 1st pic Today = 2nd pic For today I rewatched a part of the video. Drawing through and making more accurate lines was the idea. But then the two minutes aren´t nearly enough. The practice before incl. yesterday was always quite hectical. Should I increase the timer to 5 minutes for the time being? Edit: Also, at what level or time should I proceed with the other techniques in this course? I feel like I should "master" my gestures first but advancing too soon might be not good as well. Suggestions?

Day 1-3 of gesture drawing. This is my 3rd time attempting this class, but I'm striving hard not quit this time. On Day 1, I used the same poses as Proko. I also followed along with Rams comics gesture drawings, which are the Iron Manesque drawings at the bottom. I think my favorite drawings though were the ones I did at the end of the day. I didn't care anymore if it looked good and did quick gestural drawings (normally I send several minutes on a single gesture) and neck anatomy studies based off a video. Day 2: I just did the bean and gesture drawings. I used the Proko video to correct my gestures after I first attempted them on my own. Day 3: More gesture drawings. At the end of the day, I did a more detailed rendering of the neck anatomy study from Day 1. I also tried to examine the angles/relationship between the neck and the collar bones. Then, I just did body (trunk) studies from imagination just to test how much I recalled. The placement and position of breasts still confuses me, but honestly, those end-of-day freeform studies encourage me to keep going after the disastrous gesture drawings make me question if I have any skill at all lol.

Doing two-minute poses then going back and trying to re-do them with how Proko suggested in pink ink. Feel like I'm focusing too much on form and contour and not as much on the motion. Any tips on how to improve?

Here are my submissions alongside the references. (forgot to save the references for the first day) . Been drawing every day for the past year and i think i can get through this course I'm taking this in tandem with the drawing basics (free versions anyways) i did read the comment from Ryland Li before attempting it, so for the first day i didn't put a timer, but also tried to be mature with that fact and just try and get into the groove of designing the movement. the following days i tried giving myself what i thought was a lenient timer, but i actually didnt fully complete some my own reflection/critique: the movement isn't bad and I definitely tried to exaggerate however, i failed to think about the underlying forms. also i really tried at first not to focus on contours but i think that started to slip as time went on and i fell back into some bad habits. going forward i think i should try and not rely solely on line and try to use value shapes for gesture too critique me up scotty!

Two powerful tips to help you get the most out of this lesson and this course. TIP 1: GIVE YOURSELF MORE TIME. Like many of you, I started this course with no experience figure drawing. The first time I tried doing exactly what Stan suggested, drawing 30 second quicksketches in 30s-1m and 2 minute quicksketches in 2-3m. The result were sketches that were bad. Ugly, messy lines, failure to capture the gesture, all the problems identified in the later critique video. I felt discouraged and quit for a while. The second time I decided to give myself as much time as needed (which ended up being around 5m to begin with) to draw the 30 second quicksketch. A few dozen sketches later I can draw a good quicksketch (not quite as good as Stan's), but one that captures the gesture well, has clean lines, and looks pleasing. I feel very happy with this progress and motivated to continue. And I have no doubt I can draw more quickly with practice and reach the 20-30s that Stan can do this in. At one point, Stan suggests giving yourself more time is a bad idea. I agree it is a bad idea if you are using that time to just draw more. But instead I use that time to think, visualize, ghost, etc. My 5 min quicksketch has the same number of lines (or even fewer) than Stan's 30 second quicksketch. When starting to practice, it's important to practice correctly, even if that takes more time. Once you have it down, you can always practice more and cut down the time. But if you start out by rushing, you will develop poor habits. And with poor habits come poor drawings, with poor drawings poor motivation, and with poor motivation, quitting. TIP 2: GET PERSONALIZED FEEDBACK ON YOUR DRAWINGS. This tip has four steps. Step 1. Pause the example video BEFORE Stan draws anything. Do your quicksketch. After you're done, critique it yourself. Step 2. Watch Stan's quicksketch. Then compare your quicksketch with Stan's and see how they differ: * How the gesture is captured (e.g., sharp corner vs curve, long vs short line, C vs S vs I shape, darker vs lighter line, use of 1 vs 2 vs 3 segments, which details were omitted, etc.) * How clean the lines are * How beautiful the lines and overall sketch look * Etc. You may want to write down or mark up the differences so you can clearly see them. Step 3. While looking at Stan's quicksketch, draw it to get a feel of how to do it Stan's way. Step 4. If you want, you can then rewind the video back to before Stan draws anything (but with the model showing). Then redo steps 1-3. Why does this method help? Because it allows you to try it yourself first, then check your work against the teacher, clearly identify the differences and give yourself feedback, and then try again with the benefit of that knowledge. This is far superior to just drawing along with Stan - by doing that, you are just copying the video and lose the benefit of getting personalized feedback on your own work. Once you're done with this method (which will happen given Stan only offers a large, but limited, number of examples), of course draw with other reference images. But even then, you can come back a few days (or week) later to redo this exercise with Stan's examples and see what progress you've made. If you get it perfect (or nearly so) on Step 1, you know you've seriously leveled up your gesture drawing game. If you're far from perfect, then you'll get mileage from redoing this exercise again. These two tips have helped me a lot, and I hope they help you. I also welcome your critique or feedback on these tips and any other tips you have for this lesson is very a challenging one. And please hit like if these tips helped you so they can benefit others too. Thanks!

I think 2nd day of drawing gesture. All with 2 minutes which is not a lot of time ^^

Third day of drawing 10 for 1 min and 10 for 2, I've rewatched the videos a couple times and seeing other student submissions I want to do better, any feedback will be __greatly__ appreciated, thanks!