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Objective:
Practice drawing challenging poses with a focus on foreshortening and gesture.
What You’ll Do:
- Use the provided reference images to draw different poses.
- Focus on foreshortening by adjusting line lengths to show depth.
- Apply wrapping lines to emphasize form.
- Work on different angles:
- Front and back views – Maintain the natural asymmetry of the spine.
- Crouching and leaning forward – Adjust spine lines to show compression (pinch).
Key Skills:
- Capturing depth and movement
- Understanding how the body bends and twists
- Making confident, expressive lines
Final Notes:
- Think about the flow of the pose.
- Don’t worry about perfect details—focus on the gesture and structure.
- Have fun and good luck!
Deadline - submit by March 25, 2025 for a chance to be in the critique video!
Here are my latest gesture sketches from the Difficult Poses assignment images. Some were definitely tricky! Comments welcome - I have not yet watched the demos & critiques, will return to some of these after that.
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1d
Cross contours are looking good!
Hi everyone, just finished this assignment. I need to keep working on more foreshortened poses, i struggle to find rhythm in them and often elongate them also. But I enjoyed the challenge.
Any feedback or critique on these would be greatly appreciated 🙏🏽
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19d
love the gestures in your last page of drawings. It looks to me like you're getting it. Really lovely work!
Here's my project. Some poses were difficult, and I'm not sure how well they turned out.
I'd appreciate feedback
This was def a challenge but I think I did well and tried doing the same pose twice since the first felt too straight.
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2mo
These have great energy, nice work 👍
I think I’m doing a lot better! Though it was hard to focus on “making the lines shorter” when the reference was right there for me to look at. Critique would be much appreciated
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3mo
These are looking great! I checked out your older posts and these are an improvement. 🙌
If anyone can share their gesture drawings of these two pictures (3 and 2 I believe), I'd appreciate it. Having trouble with the angle of these figures.
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3mo
Here's my analyses of these poses, hope this helps!
Thanks for the great assignment together with so much reference images! I really like when a pose allows for a gesture line from the head to toe. It’s my favourite pose and also helps anchor the gesture in my opinion.
Gonna watch the demos & critique next but any feedback/critique is welcome :)
Hi guys :) This was my attempt to more complex gestures, ngl I had a very hard time with the bending poses. Swapping the stretch with the lumber feels very odd to me haha. But please i would like some feedback on these and how to get more efficient and effective when doing these gestures.
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3mo
Nicely done! I think you kept a great sense of rhythm throughout and avoided any contour or static areas.
Hand got kinda sketchy when I didn't get the lines exactly where I wanted it to be.
I felt pretty good about most of these, but a few were kind of a train wreck. Still really enjoying it.
Some of the gestures I did
Very challenging. I think I need to see more abstract rhythm.
I tend to fall back on my comfort zone and do the same one on repeat.
I also need to be more careful with my proportions, specially the torso, pelvis and legs
Overall, I learned a lot.
I hope they are good enough for what they are.
thank you Mr. Hampton
1 is actually 28 from the zip, I realize now that I was flipping through these backwards on my phone.
I don't recall checking the "asked for help" box but either way i don't like how most of these turned out, i'm assuming I need to draw the wrapping lines more precisely & also use less of them. line weight seems like a problem, as well as the placement of lines in general. proportions are off & foreshortening needs work. not sure what else is wrong.
Hello...
Learnt a lot in this. I know my gesture and understanding of it has improved a lot. Thanks Mr Hampton!
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6mo
Awesome work!
