Remember that gesture is not the contour, so don't just copy the outlines. Look for the movement and energy throughout the shapes. Use your whole arm and use the looser sketch line that we learned about.

Level 2 - Draw from Memory or Imagination

Start with the level 1 project and after 5 to 10 poses, turn the page, put away all the reference photos and do more drawings from imagination or from memory.

You can try to invent your own poses and design those shapes to be dynamic. Or you can try to remember the poses you already drew and use those as inspiration. Try to push and design with a focus on drawing dynamic shapes. It doesn't matter how accurate you get to the original photo, it's more about designing the shapes to look dynamic and interesting.

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Deadline for submissions to be included in the video critique is next Thursday (8/24/23)

* Because of the large amount of reference images, it would help a lot of you include the reference you used for each drawing. I'm more likely to select your submission for the critique. Thank you!

Bohdan Fedorchenko

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The first 10 before the demo and 11 more after. At the beginning, I tried too much just to copy what I saw and adjusted a little. After the demo, I began to think more about shapes and allowed myself to change more from reference. I like the latter ones more, so I hope I improved

Isaiah

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These creatures were interestingly simple yet full of dynamic shapes 🙌, Fun assignment.🫡.

Rachel Dawn Owens

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Nice sketchbook page

@linetime

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Had fun with this one! I could see where to push things to make the shapes more dynamic though there’s room for improvement but seeing the bouncing angles inside the shape he goes over in the lesson is harder for me to picture at times.

Carlos Pérez

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The first two are invented and the last 3 are from the images

Wesley

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Nice man

Wesley

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Nice man

@schmal

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i tried the level two. How did I do?

@schmal

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Michał Staniszewski

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I have to work on my line quality. This exercise was fun (i dont like drawing people ;d). Gonna draw some more potatoes :).

@lucagray

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12d

I enjoyed this project and the drawings I produced but I know I wasn't following the exercise properly 😖 Even after watching the demo and trying again I think I'm too skittish with deviating from what I see and I'm not great identifying the directions and pushing them. But if nothing else I felt it was good exercise for loosening up a little and enjoying the process! (Even if it wasn't quite the right process 😅) (My brother also did some seals but he did his own thing with them! Thought I'd add them too because they're a lot of fun! His are the graphite drawings.)

Melanie Scearce

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12d

It looks to me like you're heading in the right direction! You used a good variety of CSI lines and made interesting, asymmetrical shapes. Always room for improvement in everyone's work but these are looking good. I think your self-assessment is spot on. Keep trying to identify that line of action and see how you can push it in interesting ways. Also, your brother's drawing are adorable! Great job you two 👍

@brimarie

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13d

Wow, this exercise was very enlightening... Drawing from fantasy is so much more difficult - well, practice practice practice is the motto:-)

Dylan Jagiello

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16d

Ágúst Strand

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18d

What I've done so far

@landsloth

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19d

Had so much fun with these, it's probably been my favourite project so far.

Joe Burris

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20d

This was fun! I hope I was able to convey the gesture correctly. Let me know what you think I did right and more importantly what I did wrong.

Blex

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21d

ok been doing a few of these, would love some thoughts on these onces, don´t know if im playing it to safe or if i sould push the shapes some more

Michael de Graaf

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22d

@brimarie

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22d

They turned out great!👍

@dukal

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23d

I've drew this one yesterday and I think I capture some dynamism in this one.

@harrow

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23d

Level 1 submission. This was fun. I drew the ones in regular pencil before watching the demo and the ones in blue after. The ones I did before probably followed the outline too much but I really like them. I don't know if it's just me but I found the more dynamic poses much easier to draw. The static ones had a tendency to turn into dead lumps.