I was looking at Bridgman while working on this assignment and was thinking about alternating patterns of square and round shapes, and also how the shapes insert.

This was really hard, I felt like I put too much detail sometimes and guessed the anatomy a lot because I'm not familiar with it. Feel liked I learned a lot through this assignment though.

Some initial tries at mannequinization. Will need to get better at defining the shapes.

Definitely need to work on my twists and clean up my lines. Need to do like a thousand more of these. Great exercise though. I couldn’t have drawn this a couple weeks ago beyond copying the contours of the photo.

A couple more mannequins

I like this assignment. I tried to come up with my own mannequins using what I have learned from Proko. Thanks for the great lessons!

my mannequinization practice drawings :) I find it difficult to properly construct a pose, especially the arms and legs atm. any critique is appreciated

More mannequin practice! My gestures look very stiff but keep working at it with gesture drawings. Aside from that which of my practice help to become better with gesture and perspective more efficiently? the first four or the last four. Any critiques or feedbacks are also welcome!

Did this before watching the example assignment just to challenge myself and so I could check where I went wrong. But even without checking it yet I can already see most if not all of my gestures are wrong or I ve made it too plain. And I am struggling to wrap my head around mannequinizing the erector spinae, lattisimus and shoulder blades. So I know i definitely need to practice all those. Let me know if theres anything else I didnt notice! Also if there is any tricks or tips on how you learned this. Thank you!

Trying some mannequins with some indications of landmarks and anatomy. seems like there’s many levels to these mannequins. Stan seems to get fairly detailed in the anatomy with complex 3d shapes while other art books simplify everything to bare minimum primitives.

Maan, Stan was not lying when he said this wasn't easy 🥲

I think I went a little too much in the anatomy, for lack of understanding the forms

It really took some time. The key is to continue the 30s and 1 min gestues so you keep developing. The process truly felt like a meditation

I first drew along with the examples. Then tried to apply it to new poses. But I kind of feel I should be simplifying more than the examples until that goes well and then do more with muscles. I cought myself getting more occupied figuring out details as opposed of looking at the full figure in space. Feedback is appreciated!

So, these took a really long time (probably more than an hour each). Some poses were easy to get the gesture for (like the first example), and others were not so easy (last example). I could definitely keep going with more drawings, but I feel like I haven't made visible progress. I had real difficulties with the shoulder/upper torso, as I just couldn't figure out the perspective of the box and how it goes into the arm. Throughout I tried to keep in mind to soften some of the forms like the torso and pelvis. Still had fun with these (most of the time!) but I've still got a lot of mannequins ahead of me.

240502 Continue study. Kind of mannequinization. Peper, pencil, kneaded eraser. What I have noticed is that the model neck is elongated and her hands are drawn a bit too much away from her face, but I will leave it as it is for now..

240430. Continue study. Kind of mannequinization. Paper, pencil, kneaded eraser. Ref. pinerest.