How to Draw Structure in the Body – Robo Bean
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How to Draw Structure in the Body – Robo Bean

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How to Draw Structure in the Body – Robo Bean

1.3M
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The assignment for this lesson is pretty straightforward. Just find some poses (plenty available at proko.com/poses) and draw the Robo Bean for that pose. You’ll probably have a bunch of questions, concerns, and mistakes you might have made. So, after you’re done, watch the examples of me drawing the Robo Bean which hopefully will address some of your questions.

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Sajal Khare
Please critique it:)
Melanie Scearce
You got the right idea, @Sajal Khare! Right now it would be very useful to work on your pencil control, specifically with searching lines. Some of your drawings here have a lot of repeated lines of the same darkness, which gives them a 'hairy' appearance and makes them difficult to read. Since we can't always find the right line the first time, we will have to place some lines before we find the correct one. If you use the same pressure for each line, the result can be a bit jumbled. If you start lightly and only darken the correct line, the lighter lines you put down before will start to fade as you place more correct lines, like in the GIF below. Hope that helps :) Keep up the sketching!
Mike Hugh
26d
Ah! I was so focused on boxes I missed out on the lines of action. Next time! I was also far more comfortable with a stick of compressed charcoal then a light pencil, but want to work on my fine line quality.
@mightymike
I keep coming back to this exercise because getting everything right at the same time like spotting the landmarks, getting the perspective right, drawing dynamic boxes, and doing so with clean lines is just such a challenge.
Robert
4mo
The Boxes with numbers represent the numbers on the ref images. - I think I did well on the bending and stretching of the boxes and the general orientation - The angles for pelvis and shoulders are pretty decent in my opinion Questions: -Number 11 (Twisting sitting pose): How do you draw twisted boxes? It was hard to wrap my head around it - How do you determine the distance between ribcage and pelvis? How do you determine the general size relationship between them? - I already forgot but how do I place the little traingle thing above the tailbone? Generally I am really content with the ribcages. They look way better than my gestures. Would appreciate answers/feedback on my questions
Cristian Reyes
having a hard time maintaining clarity when adding the connection so I kept it to just the boxes. Feedback appreciated. I definitely found this more challenging than the bean.
Brian Judy
4mo
I went through this class long ago, and I'm in a season where it's time to revisit it. 🥰 I'm a casualty of the "drawing from the right side of the brain" era, being intermediate to advanced in portraits from reference, but not so good at imagination. Well, after studying for years, tonight was a break through for me. I feel like I actually could start to see the rotation of the subject in my mind's eye and then translate that to paper. I can see some things off... still it feels like a jump for me! Please, any critique appreciated - I'm ready to grow!
@dropfeeling
Some of these could be better, but it's a start!
Jonnathan Avelino
Critique is appreciate
Jim H
6mo
these all look like a proper bending torso to me, looks good. The first one top left, is a bit bending in the rib cage: I don't know if I could pose in that position. :D
Dave S
6mo
My Robo beans. I did the first set, then watched the critique vid, then did the second set with a little more data in my brain.
Nicole Guz
8mo
Let me know if I did the boxes right. I am a beginner so I am not sure if I did it right. There are times that I just know it is wrong but I dont know how to draw the box in a way that is correct.
Jonatan
9mo
I need some help here, how do you make a robo bean of this pose? I can figure this one out, please I'd really appreciate it
Nicole Guz
8mo
Im a beginner so take this with a big grain of salt 😅. I just wanted to share my try on it. Let me know if you solved this problem yourself!
@maximilienle2d
Jonnathan Avelino
amazing.
Jocelynn Darlene
A few robo beans. I struggled a bit at first but I found it easier to start by drawing the entire torso as one long rectangle. I still get lost when it comes to the pelvic area, particularly when it is foreshortened...
Giorgi Karkuzashvili
Some practice with robo beans. The key is to maintain both gesture and structure
Stephen Clark
I especially like the bottom left one on this page. The tilt of the head with that kind of backwards ben and extension is a really important element to sell that pose.
@sikcool
11mo
Here are some beans I drew after watching all the robobean material. My linework got messy as I tried to find the right angles. Feels like you have to be more precise with the robobean compared to the regular bean.
@yoyoy12
1yr
Aaron Smith
Not gonna lie, I'm finding it tricky to get my head around the Robo Bean! Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance :)
Rachel Dawn Owens
These are looking good! My favorite is the one of the model’s back. You pushed the pose by tilting the hips forwards. Thats the sort of thing you want to do for this exercise. I noticed the one on the right felt off. It seems too stiff. I think it’s the perspective of it. I drew my own version to help. Keep it up! You’re doing great :)
@lwel
1yr
Here is a handful of my attempts. Feedback appreciated!
Michael
1yr
Here's my attempt at the Robo Bean. Didn't use charcoal like I did for the Landmarks submission as it just got too messy, so I hope this is better! I have put the drawings/references side by side in order. Had particular difficulty with twisting and foreshortening when following along with Stan's examples, so I included some here. As always critique is most welcomed :)
Melanie Scearce
Great work! I think you did a good job finding the twists in these poses. I think especially for the poses where the model is bending backwards, you can push the squash and stretch of the ribcage against the pelvis even more by looking at the angles of the bottom of the ribcage and the top of the pelvis. These are beautiful studies, keep up the good work!
@egusisoup
1yr
Robo Bean Day 2
@lwel
1yr
The main issue I see is that the cubes are very warped. You have to imagine that the edges of one side of the "boxes" continuing further and converging at some point. I drew an overlay so you can see what I mean. I think you drew the twists very well!
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